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The first hobbyist-developed game for the Atari 2600 was written in 1995, and more than 100 have been released since then. Most are unlicensed clones of games for other platforms; some are original games or ROM hacks.
Duck Attack! was initially conceived as a ROM hack of the Atari 2600 game Adventure, but was then rewritten as an original title. [1] The game displays sprites that are larger and more detailed than commonly seen in Atari 2600 games, but with a lower vertical resolution.
In 2003, Oystron was one of several Atari 2600 homebrew titles selected by Activision for inclusion in the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology. [5] In 2005, it was named one of the five "Best 2600 Homebrew Games" in the book Gaming Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Simon Carless, who praised the game's fast pace, sprites and color scheme.
Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename. [2] It is open-source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
Homebrew, when applied to video games, refers to software produced by hobbyists for proprietary video game consoles which are not intended to be user-programmable. The official documentation is often only available to licensed developers, and these systems may use storage formats that make distribution difficult, such as ROM cartridges or encrypted CD-ROMs.
Montezuma's Revenge is a platform game for the Atari 8-bit computers, Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), and ZX Spectrum (as Panama Joe). It was designed and programmed by Robert Jaeger and published by Parker Brothers in 1984.
The music from the virtual tape deck can be mixed with the Atari 2600 game audio so both are audible to simulate playing the game on TV while having the tape running in the background. Six Activision-produced Atari 2600 titles were not included in Activision Anthology , likely due to outside ownership of their respective licenses.
The Atari 2600 has been a popular platform for homebrew projects, with 88 games publicly released. Unlike later systems, the Atari 2600 does not require a modchip to run cartridges. Many games are clones of existing games written as programming challenges, [ 27 ] often borrowing the name of the original.