graywest Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Hello all! Here's a game that doesn't seem to be archived anywhere. It's "Holster" from Aim Software. I picked it up in a lot from Ebay and noticed that the Lost Media Wiki has it listed as "Lost" and "Existence Unconfirmed". Well, now it's found and I confirm that it exists. https://lostmediawiki.com/Aim_Software_(partially_found_Atari_8-Bit_games_from_video_game_company;_early_1980s) The author was Alon Goren, according to the title screen. No indication of the year of release on the cassette, but it's probably from 1982-1984 judging from other Aim Software releases. It's a couple hundred lines of BASIC code in a .cas file, and I'm also attaching my bootable .atr with the .bas if you want to try it out. Atarimania has a picture of the cassette which is identical to my copy. Honestly, it's not a great game, but it's good to preserve these things for posterity I think. Basically a Western-themed clone of Centipede with only one centipede segment to shoot. Enjoy! holster.cas holster.atr 13 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 @www.atarimania.com would be interested in this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted March 19, 2023 Share Posted March 19, 2023 Thank you very much for your help, that was a nice surprise! Do you think you could scan the cassette so we can have a better picture than the one on our site? Any instructions or box? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graywest Posted March 19, 2023 Author Share Posted March 19, 2023 3 hours ago, www.atarimania.com said: Thank you very much for your help, that was a nice surprise! Do you think you could scan the cassette so we can have a better picture than the one on our site? Any instructions or box? No problem! Here's a scan of the cassette. Both sides are labeled but they are identical. I don't have the instructions or box, unfortunately. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdefabri Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 10 hours ago, graywest said: Hello all! Here's a game that doesn't seem to be archived anywhere. It's "Holster" from Aim Software. I picked it up in a lot from Ebay and noticed that the Lost Media Wiki has it listed as "Lost" and "Existence Unconfirmed". Well, now it's found and I confirm that it exists. https://lostmediawiki.com/Aim_Software_(partially_found_Atari_8-Bit_games_from_video_game_company;_early_1980s) The author was Alon Goren, according to the title screen. No indication of the year of release on the cassette, but it's probably from 1982-1984 judging from other Aim Software releases. It's a couple hundred lines of BASIC code in a .cas file, and I'm also attaching my bootable .atr with the .bas if you want to try it out. Atarimania has a picture of the cassette which is identical to my copy. Honestly, it's not a great game, but it's good to preserve these things for posterity I think. Basically a Western-themed clone of Centipede with only one centipede segment to shoot. Enjoy! holster.cas 9.54 kB · 12 downloads holster.atr 130.02 kB · 24 downloads Pretty sure I have Ambulance which is also listed as “lost / existence unconfirmed”. Almost certain I have the packaging too. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.atarimania.com Posted March 20, 2023 Share Posted March 20, 2023 7 hours ago, graywest said: No problem! Here's a scan of the cassette. Both sides are labeled but they are identical. I don't have the instructions or box, unfortunately. Beautiful, thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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