Where were you erstwhile the Atari Lynx came out? I, for one, wasn’t calved yet. Still, I’m alert of the Atari Corporation’s precocious 20th-century dominance. The archetypal colour handheld, the Lynx, sold implicit 3 cardinal copies and rivaled household-name products similar the archetypal Game Boy. But erstwhile the Atari Jaguar was adjacent successful enactment to instrumentality the throne, the Lynx, with its awesome graphics, was discontinued and yet faded into comparative obscurity. Until now, that is. Two developers conscionable released caller games for the classical console, each implicit with its ain cartridge and case.
According to Engadget, Atari Lynx fans often stitchery connected AtariAge to stock their experiences with the greater community, drawback up connected immoderate outstanding news, and adjacent acquisition games/merch. Solo programmer Frédéric Descharmes, besides known arsenic Fadest, has been a longtime subordinate of the tract and a well-known creator. His puzzle compilation, Yastuna, was released backmost successful 2008 and garnered a sizeable following. His 2 latest projects, Raid connected TriCity and Asteroid Chasers, are emotion letters to tile-matching, shoot-em-ups, and strategy games. You tin get a amended look astatine the visuals and mechanics successful the assemblage above.
In a akin vein, Songbird Productions’ founder, Carl Forhan, selected 2 obscure titles – Cyber Virus - Lost Missions and the aptly titled Unnamed (check these retired successful the assemblage above) – to make and people respectively. “In CyberVirus, I had to redo each the missions,” Forhan told Engadget. “[I had to] redo the wellness and powerup system, and adhd caller features to the crippled which were not successful the archetypal prototype.” On the different hand, Unnamed was created by Marcin Siwek with Songbird’s backing and is straight inspired by escapade games and RPGs. You tin ticker the trailer here.
Sure, the Lynx mightiness person been released much than 30 years ago, but Atari remains applicable adjacent today. The VCS, a console/PC hybrid, launched implicit the summertime with implicit a twelve games from assorted indie developers.
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