Ep. 2: 1980, Part 1: Super Breakout

Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

English - August 28, 2014 03:30 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Previous Episode: Ep. 1: 1979: Star Raiders

Next Episode: Ep. 3: 1980, Part 2: Space Invaders

Welcome to 1980! Episode 2 includes coverage of the Creative Computing and Compute! magazines through the first half of 1980 and a review of the game Super Breakout by Atari.

Introduction

Racing the Beam
Drawing kernels for the Atari 8-bits
Check out Ferg's 2600 Game-by-Game podcast for the contest I'm sponsoring!

Feedback

Rick Keene's artwork
Superplot by Michael Portuesi
blubalu's Star Raiders unboxing!

Magazines

Compute #2, Jan/Feb 1980
Creative Computing v6, #1 Jan 1980
Creative Computing v6, #2 Feb 1980
Compute #3, Mar/Apr 1980
Creative Computing v6, #3 Mar 1980
Creative Computing v6, #4 Apr 1980 (the famous April Fool's issue)
Compute #4, May/Jun 1980
C64 vs Apple 2 chess match

Creative Computing v6, #5 May 1980
Creative Computing v6, #6 Jun 1980

Game Review: Super Breakout

Atarimania Page
Atari 8-bit Forever Page

Author: Larry Kaplan

Ferg's review of Breakout for the 2600
Super Breakout at the Arcade Museum
Ferg's review of Super Breakout for the 2600
Steve Wozniak recalls designing Breakout
Breakout at Arcade History
Woz addresses Breakout payment from Woz.org

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