 Here are Atari VCS games,
that have been hacked
for new graphics or new gameplay
to offer a new kind of pleasure
and to (re)discover them.
Enjoy !
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3 kind of hacks
The downloadable games on this page have been divided into three
categories of hacks, depending on the nature of the modifications
applied (see opposite). The games are listed below in order from newest to oldest. Some games mention NPS ( click here to learn more about this concept). Other games carry the epithet "EG" (Enhanced Graphics) to signify that the graphics have been improved.
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Le plus beau Pac-Man sur
Atari 2600 enfin en Sécam !
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On the occasion of the Pac-Man contest organized for Retroplay
2022, Little Rabbit and Zeelay made an adaptation of Pac-Man 8K in NPS.
Visitors were thus able to play a Pac-Man in splendid RGB colors on a
Sécam console for the first time! The EG version brings some fixes in
the drawing of the fruits to make them more faithful to the arcade
version.
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Pac-Man 8K (NPS)
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Pac-Man 8K EG (NPS)
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Pac-Man compatible
Ntsc-Pal-Sécam
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Happy to finally have a nice Pac-Man for my 2600 (but unhappy
to not being able to play it properly on my Sécam console), I threw myself
into the NPS pallet of this essential title. Result: the colors are
even more beautiful than in Ntsc ;)
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Télécharger Pac-Man 4K (NPS)
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Four players can now
fight together at the same time
in this classic Atari 2600 Tron-like game.
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If you loved Warlords, Street Racer, Video Olympics and Medieval Mayhem,
because they allow four players to fight at the same time, then you
will surely love Surround 4
too !
It is the first game that allow four players to play on the Atari 2600
with
joysticks. But be aware that you will need a hacked
Atari 2600 console that has four joysticks ports.
> Download
Surround 4
> See the video
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Eat everything except the
purple pickles,
or the seventh one will make you loose.
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Fast Food has an easy-to-get gameplay :
You must eat
everything, except the
purple pickles (they are absolutely indigestible). I never liked the
shape of the original mouth, so I redrew it to be closer to the
sexy one on the art cover of the box. I also redrew the end-level
screen to have a nicer score with a bold font, and renamed
the
game Go Get Fat.
> Download
"Go Get Fat"
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A moving Maze, the
so-familiar ghosts,
and still Pac-Man... with two mouths !
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Three millions years after Pac-Man, his
descendances are still chased by ghosts. Their genetic code is so
limited that they haven't evolved, but the evolution
by
natural selection changed Pac-Man... he now has two mouths!
He can eat faster in a new maze with moving
walls. The original game (Jawbreaker) used to drive you crazy... this
hack will do the same.
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Pac-Man Mutation
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Deactivate all these
logic-cells
or they will tell the MCP that you are an intruder here !
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In the Tron movie from 1982, the hero escaped
the Tanks and then find himself in a room where logic-cells scan him as
a bug (the movie was too long and the scene has been deleted). These
cells are trying to reach the line-base (to contact the MCP and teel
him
that a bug is here. You must kill them all or the MCP will know about
you and will erase you!
> Tron
Invaders
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A little text mode
game... on the Atari 2600 !
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This unusual text-mode game on the 2600 is
pretty interesting. But it was a bit too
flashy to me (yellow font on a magenta background). So I made the
colors much more classic (just black & white) and redrew
the typo. For a more coloured version, I made a variation and
changed again the font to have it match with the Atari 8bit
screen (in graphic mode 1), just like the Atari 800 XL did.
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Dark Mage Grey
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Dark Mage 8bit (800 XL)
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Challenge #2... if you
manage this level,
then try the last one and become the SI-Master!
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Not one, not two, but three challenges awaiting
for you! The first one will be a bit harder than the original Space
Invaders. But if you can manage the second one, then launch the third
to become the master of Space Invaders!
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Space Invaders Challenge
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Two Sno-Bees from Pengo
have found a new funny game (Ntsc screenshot).
This game is working fine
in Ntsc, Pal and Secam,
by using the Color/BW switch (Secam screenshot).
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Pengo 2 : Sno-Bees'
Balls
Do you remember the Sno-Bees... You know, the
bad
guys who used to
chase Pengo back in the 80s... Well, two of them have escaped from the
ice floe and found someone else to bother... I mean something else:
balls of clouds, dancing in the sky that they try to reach, by jumping
on a trampoline sliding on the ice. It's funnier than chasing Pengo,
but also dangerous if a Sno-Bee don't fall on the right side
of the trampolin.
Multistandard :
This game works in NTSC, PAL and SECAM. It works by itself with a
console, but if running in an emulator with SECAM palette, place the
Color/B&W button on the B&W position.
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Download
"Sno-Bees"
Very
important : Don't play it with a joystick (or
with the arrows of the keyboard if
using an emulator). This is a paddle game, and the only way to have it
to be fun is to play with paddles (or the mouse if using an amulator).
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