Release date: 2011

Boulder Dash

This Boulder Dash is a homebrew Atari 2600 conversion of First Star Software’s 1984 computer game, made by Andrew Davie and Thomas Jentzsch and sold by AtariAge. It is not an original 1980s cartridge: the two programmers spent almost ten years on it, with First Star’s approval, and it was released as a limited run of 250 cartridges. The result is a surprisingly faithful version of a classic digging puzzle on a console that was never meant to handle it. You can play it here in your browser.

Bell Hopper

Bell Hopper is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Tomas “Tjoppen” Härdin, released at the Assembly Summer 2011 demoparty, where it placed fifth in the game development competition. It is a “demake” of Ferry Halim’s Flash game Winterbells: a rabbit jumps higher and higher into a starry night sky by bouncing off floating bells. You can play it here in your browser.