For whom it may concern

Let's start with my first game, Thrust. There were 3 releases:

• Thrust (2000) (original release),
• Thrust+ (2002) (added driving and booster grip controller support, no ROM)
• Thrust+ Platinum Edition (2004) (added great music and SFX by Paul Slocum)

 

 

Thrust (2000) (Thomas Jentzsch).bin Thrust+ Platinum (2004) (Thomas Jentzsch).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

My second game Jammed (2001), was an experiment in compression. I tried to squeeze as many unique puzzle as possible into the 4K ROM and ended with 600.  

 

Jammed (2001) (Thomas Jentzsch).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

In 2004, I participated successfully in the annual Minigame Competition. My 1K games became 1st (Cave 1K), 2nd (Splatform 2600) and 7th (Crash'n'Dive). So I decided to put them onto a cart and this became SWOOPS! (2005).

 

 

 

 

SWOOPS! (2005) (Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC).bin SWOOPS! (2005) (Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

After SWOOPS! I went a step further and developed RAM-Pong (2009), a fully playable Pong for two players which runs in the 128 bytes RAM of the Atari 2600 console!

 

 

So after you started the game, you can unplug the cart and continue playing.  Unfortunately this game got not released on cart yet.  

 

 

In 2017 I made the menu simpler, so that the ROM fits into 1K.

 

 

RAM-Pong (2009) (Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC).bin RAM-Pong (2009) (Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL).bin RAM-Pong (2009) (Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL60).bin RAM-Pong 1K (2017) (Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

In 2012, after almost 10 years of development, Andrew Davie and I released Boulder Dash. The game was licensed by First Star Software for a 250 copies release. Unfortunately we are not allowed to the release the full ROM. So here you can download only a demo version.

 

 

 

 

 

The good news is, that we are currently working on an unlimited re-release. Stay tuned...

Boulder Dash (2012) (Andrew Davie, Thomas Jentzsch) (Demo 2).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

Star Castle Arcade (2014) is the result of a cooperation with Chris Walton (Nathan Strum did the graphics). Chris started the game and I finalized it.

 

 

 

Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC) (Harmony).cu Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL) (Harmony).cu Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC) (Stella).bin Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL) (Stella).bin

Edited May 3, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

Three·s ("3 dots") was also released in 2014. It is based on the awards winning iOS game Threes.

 

 

I tried to give the game a Mondrian like look.

 

Three.s (2014) (Thomas Jentzsch.bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

Aardvark (2019) is another cooperation. Oscar started the development, recreating an unreleased Anteater prototype. Then I joined development and got Nathan into the project too. Together we greatly improved the game, even over the arcade version.

 

 

Aardvark (2019) (Oscar Toledo G., Thomas Jentzsch, Nathan Strum) (NTSC).bin Aardvark (2019) (Oscar Toledo G., Thomas Jentzsch, Nathan Strum) (PAL60).bin

Edited April 28, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch

Robot City (2020) got started in 2006, where the 1K version won the Minigame Competition. It is based on an Odyssey 2 prototype. Real life interrupted development for many years until a ZPH show finally motivated me to complete the long planned 4K version.

 

 

Robot City (2020) (Thomas Jentzsch) (NTSC).bin Robot City (2020) (Thomas Jentzsch) (PAL60).bin

On 4/28/2021 at 4:21 AM, Thomas Jentzsch said:

Star Castle Arcade (2014) is the result of a cooperation with Chris Walton (Nathan Strum did the graphics). Chris started the game and I finalized it.

Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (Harmony).cu 32 kB · 17 downloads Star Castle Arcade (2014) (Chris Walton, Thomas Jentzsch) (Stella).bin 28 kB · 15 downloads

.cu file??? What type is that @Thomas Jentzsch????

Edited May 2, 2021 by Arenafoot

That's a a special file for Harmony Cart. CU means custom, because the ROM contains the special driver required.

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll drop the file and get to playing some SC later.

Is there an NTSC verison of this game? When I run the harmony verison with .cu my screen rolls.

6 hours ago, Prizrak said:

Is there an NTSC verison of this game? When I run the harmony verison with .cu my screen rolls.

Try SELECT.  

I tried that and all it seemed to do was a pallet color change. I'll try again. My unit is a light six with composite mod. 

Sorry, my brain is playing tricks on me. I replaced the ROMs, now there are NTSC and PAL versions. I hope it works now.

I think perhaps the Boulder Dash demo is also the PAL version?

Yes, it can be switched to PAL.

This is such a lovely thing to do, thank you!  I'm going to pick through your list, learn them, and give them a spin.

Thank you TJ for sharing all of this. Really special stuff.

Thanks for the games @Thomas Jentzsch

 

D.

Bot&Tom is based on the browser game Top&Tom. In my game, the levels are randomly generated and I've replaced the instant death on collision, with energy loss. And I added power ups.

The game became a winner:

 

 

 

Bot&Tom (V1.03) (PlusROM).bin Bot&Tom (V1.03) (PlusROM) (PAL60).bin readme.md

Edited September 6 by Thomas Jentzsch

Your Aardvark and Star Castle are brilliant!  Outstanding work.  Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for sharing all of these.  

 

I played Aardvark in the HSC and really liked it.  I am looking forward to playing some of your other games.

Oops, looks I missed posting VROOM! here.

 

Fixed!  

VROOM! (v1.0) (PlusROM) (PAL60).bin VROOM! (v1.0) (PlusROM) (NTSC).bin

Edited November 29 by Thomas Jentzsch