Episode 1 - Kirk Israel
Kirk Israel talks about JoustPong, a game he has made and remade many times over the years. We dive into the homebrew community surrounding the Atari 2600 in the early 2000s, the strain of obsessive assembly coding on relationships, and the challenge of finding a supportive community.
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Show notes
- The Usenet thread where JoustPong was first proposed
- Visual Basic JoustPong
- PocketC JoustPong
- Java JoustPong
- Atari 2600 JoustPong / FlapPing development blog
- processing.js FlapPing made for Flappy Jam
- You can buy a physical FlapPing cartridge for the Atari 2600
- kirk.is, Kirk's personal blog, which he's been updating daily since 2001
- Kirk's gamebutton arcade
- Batari Basic is an accessible tool for Atari 2600 game creation
- Kirk reviews every type-in game from Compute!'s Gazette magazine
- Hozer Video vs. AtariAge