Supermarket

Hey guys... I'm looking at this lot on eBay Australia and wondering if you can help identify some of the carts? The seller is non-plused and doesn't want to type up the full list. Any help would be much appreciated! I recognise the following: Super Action Pack, Skiing, Kung Fu Master, River Raid, Tomcat, Sports Action Pack, Commando, Double Dragon, Pacman... If there's something in here that you want I'm happy to give to divide up this lot with anyone who helps me identify these carts, and we can split the bill on eBay accordingly! All carts are for the PAL system.

I've done some of this using the following simple workflow: 1. Take screenshot in Stella. 2. 'Import' screenshot to stage in Adobe/Macromedia Flash. 3. 'Trace Bitmap' (with very low threshold settings). ...and voila, you now have vectorised pixels you can scale to your heart's content, and export as .EPS or .PNG at whatever res you like. It's also a great place to test your pixel animations, using consecutive frames. If I'm drawing pixels from scratch, I use IcoFX 1.6 ... it's freeware available here.

Hi guys, I'm a freelance illustrator and I'm itching to do some more work with pixels for retro gaming collaborations. I can design/refine sprites, and I'm also an animator (traditional drawn, and flash) so can produce sprites for high impact, high data economy. I'm looking to collaborate on works which are already in development, and wish to raise the quality of their sprites to a higher level. If this appeals to any of you (and you'd like to swap samples), please drop me an email. Incidentally... do any of you have an indexed colour palette for PAL/NTSC Atari colours that I could nab a copy of?

Thanks Holgibo... glad you like it! I made it before I found the binary and played the game on Stella... I like it more now that I've played the game

Is no-one else here a fan of Star Wars: Jedi Arena? I'll confess, my subscription to Star Wars saga fandom fuels my fondness for it. It's great fun with two players... Kaboom is another classic, agreed.

great game! very impressed. nice work mr serra!

For me it's born out of the love for the harmony between illustration and the pixel... vintage atari game artwork is a fantastic example of the handshake between traditional illustration and 'the future': pixels. I love retro technology too, Atari of course, and collaborative creativity. Good enough reasons, methinks?

I just completed a design last night and sent it in... hope to see it on the site soon. This is the first one of these comps I've entered- great fun! I used Flash for the drawing and Photoshop for the layout of my cart labels. The small font I used I designed myself some time ago. The graphic design was far more striking when I drew it in flash (RGB) so when I dropped it into Photoshop, the intensity of the colours dropped off... particularly the green tunnel. I'll post the RGB version here for you to see, though CMYK printing won't be able to replicate the palette. When do you expect the next of these comps to run?