Player/Missile - An Atari 8-bit Retrospective

Ep. 2: 1980, Part 1: Super Breakout

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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
              • Manual
              • 5200 Breakout Manual
                • Technical Details
                • Mapping the Atari: Display Lists
                • De Re Atari: ANTIC and the Display List
                • De Re Atari: Display List Interrupts
                • Non-Maskable Interrupt
                  • My High Score
                  • July 2013: HSC10, Round 12
                    • SAP
                    • ASMA: Atari SAP Music Archive
                    • A Nice Morning Drive
                    • Neil Peart & Richard S. Foster's Road Trip
                      • Production Notes
                      • Music: Stef Animal's Bandcamp page
                      • Episode page: Episode 2
                      • Twitter: @atari8bitgames
                        • ...more
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