I ran across this avid YouTube poster and retro gamer fan from Canada who was showcasing his latest find in Omega Race on the VIC 20. Great video review, so after a few emails exchanged, I shipped a couple of cassette tapes housing my homebrew video games in Berzerk MMX, Omega Fury, and Quikman+. Watch [...]
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Atarileaf’s Video Review
Jul 23
Retro Gamer Review
Jul 21
Issue #77 arrived the other day with a nice review of my homebrew game, Berzerk MMX. I do not think I will go to such extremes getting in scanned and printed as before with the Quikman 2008 review, but I will transcribe it here because of its brevity (not that I am complaining, it was [...]
New High Score!
Jul 1
Yes, it is a rare treat to surpass my typical game-playing abilities, and today I set a personal best score at my Quikman video game. I think it helped playing it on a real VIC 20, too, although it really should not matter. Perhaps there is old muscle memory kicking in from squeezing the bat-handled [...]
Harmony
Jun 13
My wife bought me this Harmony cartridge for my Atari video console system as a birthday present gadget. Like the Mega-Cart for VIC 20, it boots a friendly front-end menu for all the cartridge images stored within it. But unlike the pre-installed ROM in Mega-Cart, Harmony sports a SD flash memory reader and allows me [...]
Day 3 came and we played two courses at Myrtle Beach National: the South and West. The weather held out nicely, with a morning haze and steady breeze keeping it a lot cooler than yesterday. It got hot and sunny in the early afternoon, but the big clouds came through — no rain — but [...]
