Following the recent release of their amazing Boulder Dash® playable demo, programmers Andrew Davie and Thomas Jentzsch, in association with publishers AtariAge and First Star Software, Inc, are very excited to announce that the original game in the Boulder Dash series, Boulder Dash® Volume 1, is now available for pre-ordering, and will ship in early 2012!
Andrew Davie and Thomas Jentzsch have been working on this Atari 2600 port of Boulder Dash® for almost a decade. Together these two Atari 2600 veterans have used their insight and sophisticated knowledge about the Atari console to bring to life a faithful rendering of the classic, action-puzzle game (first released on the Atari 8-bit computer platform in 1984) from First Star Software, Inc. Game-play, sounds, and graphics have been faithfully reproduced, culminating in a game for the Atari 2600 unlike any previously seen.
Here's a video to give you a taste of the game!
With the full cooperation of First Star Software, Inc., this title will finally be available on the 2600!
The game features exact implementations of all 16 caves and 4 intermissions of the original game, playable with 5 levels of difficulty, providing over 80 unique levels of challenging fun. The physics, sound, and graphics are as exact as possible on the Atari 2600, and the game-play and timing are exactly the same as in the original version of the game. In short, this is a not-to-be-missed masterpiece, available in a limited run of only 250 copies.
AtariAge and First Star Software, Inc. held a box and label design competition for Boulder Dash®, and the winning entry was crafted by Andre Bolfing. Andre's artwork will appear on the cartridge, manual and box.
We can now build custom, one-off carts for the 2600, 5200 and 7800 with high-quality, glossy, die-cut label using a new printer, custom label die and label stock we recently purchased. For the 2600, using our advanced Melody Board, we can produce cartridges with virtually any bankswitching method. All you need to do is send us the binary and the label files you want us to use and we'll make you your own, custom, one-off cartridge.
Follow these links for complete details on how to order these custom cartridges:
