Atari game faqs

An icon, reimagined. Atari Mode Play More. Learn More. Games More Games. Productivity Work, school, social media and more. Want to create for the Atari VCS? Become a Developer Learn More. What is the Atari VCS? Do I have to use Atari controllers? Does the Atari VCS require an internet connection? Yes, it's genuine wood! What games come with the VCS? What is PC Mode? When will my order ship?

PriceCharting Index: Atari Average loose price for all licensed, non-variant games for Atari details. ET the Extra Terrestrial. Red Sea Crossing. Atari System. Air Raid. Swordquest Waterworld. Atari System [Heavy Sixer]. Star Wars Ewok Adventure Prototype. Donkey Kong. Space Invaders. Mario Bros. Video Pinball. Q-bert's Qubes. What were the unreleased Lynx games? A: The following games were announced at one time or another as being planned for the Lynx.

With the dissolution of Atari, the chances are very slim that any of these games will ever be produced or released. However, a few enterprising companies and individuals have considered plans to either finish their Lynx titles for release, to sell finished-but-unreleased games, or to produce new games on their own.

Announced Lynx games? Predator 1? Songbird Prod. Teflon Soft. Action Daemonsgate 1? Storm Paralemmings 1 L. Action Road Fury 1? Action The Furies 1? Simonis Action Ultra Star Raiders 1? Action Zow 1? A: Robert A. Jung rjung netcom. What accessories were available for the Lynx? The following products were available from Atari Corp. Connects multiple Lynxes together for multiplayer games. Powers the Lynx from any AC wall socket. Powers the Lynx from any automobile cigarette lighter.

Will support one or two Lynxes simultaneously. Folds down to protect the Lynx screen, and pops open to shade the Lynx screen from sunlight for outdoor play. Holds six D-cell batteries, and can be attached with a belt clip. Alkaline batteries provides power for up to 20 hours of playing.

Holds a Lynx, several game cards, and a ComLynx cable. Holds a Lynx, up to 24 game cards, and assorted accessories. Padded interior with Velcro dividers, can be customized. Carried with a handle or a shoulder strap.

Naki Products also sold several Lynx accessories. Cleans game cards and cartridge slots. Comes with swabs and cleaning solution. Powers the Lynx from any v outlet.

Cigarette lighter DC adaptor. Holds a Lynx and up to 20 game cartridges. Nylon with adjustable carrying straps. Comes in Black, purple, or teal blue. Was there a TV tuner option for the Lynx? Atari's official position was that market research showed that a TV tuner, while a neat idea, would not be bought by most players. The unofficial word from Stephen Landrum is that the Lynx screen display is not capable of handling a broadcast television picture.

How do you get a Lynx screen shot, anyway? Atari had an experimental adaptor for the Lynx that allowed graphics to be shown on a conventional television set. This was used to demonstrate Lynx games for corporate meetings, as well as providing videotape footage and screen grabs for the media. More enterprising players may get "screen shots" of Lynx games by running one of the Lynx emulators on a personal computer, then taking screen shots from there.

More information about Lynx emulators can be found elsewhere in this FAQ. The device requires a Lynx II, and must be installed in order to work. More details will be provided when they are available. What can I use to carry my Lynx game cards? A cheap and easy solution is the plastic cases used to hold trading cards. They're transparent, sturdy, and lock shut when closed. Another solution are Lynx card wallets.

Each wallet holds 9 cards firmly. The cases can be bought from Nintendo at , part number What does "ComLynx" mean, exactly?

Some Lynx games allow multiple players to play together simultaneously. This works when each player has a Lynx game machine, and all of the machines are connected to each other via cables.

The connection is the ComLynx port, and the cables are ComLynx cables. Do all players "Lynxed up" via the ComLynx need a copy of the game being played?

All players need a copy of the game card. An early idea that Epyx had considered for the Lynx was to use magnetic tapes! This idea was abandoned because the Lynx's 64K of DRAM was insufficient to store a game, but not before spawning rumors that multi-player Lynx games only needed one copy of the title.

What's the ComLynx port like? There is a limit of 18 players via ComLynx. In practice it may be possible to connect more units together, but to operate within specifications, the drivers in the Lynx cannot drive over more than 17 units with pull-ups on the serial ports. It's easier for the Lynx to manage fewer players, however, since each Lynx has to track all of the others, and having more players means more data must be exchanged growth is exponential.

Also, tracking more than 8 players requires an extra byte to encode the Lynx unit number with each data packet. ComLynx runs from It works on a "listen and send" structure.

Data transmission between Lynxes is done in the background, freeing up the CPU to run the game instead of communicating. It's called "RedEye" in-house at Atari, named after an early idea of having Lynxes communicate with infra-red transmissions. The system frames messages in terms of bit words, each consisting of a start bit, eight data bits, a parity bit, and a stop bit.

The ComLynx port is used solely for communications; it can't be used to control other aspects of the Lynx, though in theory it can be used to send signals to external devices. Sometimes a multiplayer ComLynx game will freeze up. A ComLynxed game will freeze if communication between the Lynxes is interrupted.

If communications can be restored, the game will continue. The most common cause of this problem is a fray in one of the ComLynx cables, or a loose seating in one of the ComLynx jacks.