Balloon Girl / Sharkstorm homebrew Atari 2600 double ender cart

Started by poundlander, October 22, 2021, 14:12:30 PM

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poundlander

Just created an all original homebrew dual sided cart for the Atari 2600!

Balloon Girl is a side-scrolling action game that only uses one button.  Should be accessibility controller friendly.  Mostly did it for the challenge of making a fun one button game.

Sharkstorm is my developer release of Twist R Shark published by Neo Games.  It's a top down boss rush game.  The boss characteristics change wave after wave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6vuHr2Aj4Q&t=86s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2HXu23Ckkg
Please check out my party favors at https://theloon.itch.io/
Downloadable Atari 2600 games such as Upp Plus Plus, Nitebear on Sleepystreet, Stranglehand and more!

TrekMD

That is cool!  Is this the first doublender homebrew cart?

Going to the final frontier, gaming...


poundlander

Quote from: TrekMD on October 23, 2021, 00:30:03 AM
That is cool!  Is this the first doublender homebrew cart?

Others here would have a way more informed opinion on that.  That being said, I have a vague feeling some have made reproduction or ROM hacked versions of games on a double ender.. maybe horror film based?  But, no all original homebrew.  Those repros seemed to be using salvaged Xonox carts whereas Gemintronic "dual carts" are using our own 3D printed form factor.
Please check out my party favors at https://theloon.itch.io/
Downloadable Atari 2600 games such as Upp Plus Plus, Nitebear on Sleepystreet, Stranglehand and more!

TrekMD

I am familiar with repros that have been made using the double-ender carts before but I don't recall any homebrew games done this way.

Going to the final frontier, gaming...


zapiy


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poundlander

Quote from: zapiy on October 26, 2021, 23:29:12 PM
Interesting, I am way out of the loop on all this.

I kinda just blitzed the announcement simultaneously across social media and forums very shortly after making the dual cart available.  So, the world in general was unawares :)
Please check out my party favors at https://theloon.itch.io/
Downloadable Atari 2600 games such as Upp Plus Plus, Nitebear on Sleepystreet, Stranglehand and more!