Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017 - Blasting away those classic Outrun tunes on the Atari ST

I thought it time to mention a bit of Atari news for tonight, much to the delight of AtariCrypt. As in celebration of a new year, Peter Jørgensen (bionic nerd) has made available an exceedingly good music demo on the Atari ST called 'Outrun New Year Music Demo 2017'. Yes you guessed it, that classic racing game known as Outrun which was a huge hit in the 1980's in the Arcades and ported over

Custodian - Amiga/Atari ST game coming to the Atari Jaguar

It's time for the Atari Jaguar to come out of the cold as pre-orders are now available for the platformer shooter ' Custodian ', which is Piko Interactive's very first Atari Jaguar release. Now some of you may remember this game from the late 1980's that's because it was released on both the Amiga and Atari ST by Hewson, and featured a number of levels, many different weapons and power ups and

Return to Genesis - Atari ST/Amiga scroller teased for the Sega Megadrive

Classed as a rare game on the Amiga, Return to Genesis started its life in 1987 as an Atari ST demo, intending to illustrate the performance of an Atari with high speed, horizontal, parallax scrolling using all of 16 colours. It was later turned into a commercial scrolling shooter in 1988 and released on the Amiga as well as the Atari ST and published by Firebird with music by none other than

DreadStar - A wicked PC shoot em up that's in development with ZX Spectrum tunes!

Growing up there was nothing more satisfying than playing top down scrolling shoot em ups such as the fantastic classic Tyrian 2000, which is also available on GOG. I'm also a bit of a sucker for bullet hell shooters that just don't stop with the constant flood of bullets across your gaming screen. But this game ' DreadStar 'by AugmentedIrreality takes the best out of this genre, adds a few

8-way scrolling system teased for Atari STE game development

We don't usually feature Atari STE games simply for the fact that I am mainly an Amiga gamer at heart, but sufficed to say I was rather impressed by the news that has just appeared in our feed thanks to our friends AtariCrypt. A coder/developer by the name of Douglas Little (aka dml) is developing a new game engine for the Atari STE which creates the groundwork for an ultra smooth screen

The Atari ST and the Creative People: Anthology - An awesome Atari ST Kickstarter Campaign

While the crowdfunding platforms are being flooded with projects for retrocomputing greats such as the C64, Spectrum and Amiga, the scene has been a little light on products for the Humble Atari ST. Seemingly unloved by people targeting the frothing hoards of Amiga fans the ST has been getting a short shrift of memorabilia to drop your wad on. Well Marco A. Breddin wants to change that with