Yoomp! - An 8-bit Atari game

[Toiyashopaholic]

It looks like C64 grapics to me and music belongs to Keygen! ^FT^

[Tamanozke]

Wow this looks REALLY fun!!

[Dant2142]

I like how the ball-bouncing is in perfect time with the music. XD

Whoever programmed this is freaking amazing.

[BagoZonde]

Uh her, one of the best 8bit games I've ever seen! Great music and rhythmic play! And that graphic is really cool. Great game for Polish programmer with "bad ass" stunning idea :).

[AGWhiteman]

Great game !! very playable!! *****

[inphanta]

I'm a C64 guy myself, but I do appreciate the 8-bit Atari, and this looks awesome.

[GreatLakesDrifta]

Wow. You make the Atari 8-Bit sing and dance like nobody else can! This game kinda reminds me of Rainbow Walker, but better.

[LexorzNL]

Fantastic how people are still busy programming the xl/xe, it just gets better all the time. I wish these possibilities were discovered in the 80s.

I also started to code again on the xl/xe.

[BdR76]

As the Germans say, "in working within limits, the master reveals himself". This game is almost a piece of art; polished graphics, foot-tapping music, the ball bounces in perfect sync to the music, fluent 3D effects on a 2MHz(!) system. Simply amazing.

[senorverde09]

If you released this in back in the early 80s, surely the video game crash of 83 would have never happened and you'd be rich.

[fronkenpoop]

(C)2007? ...LOL, you've missed the boat by about 30 years.

I had my techie days on the old 8 bit Atari, and it's got me a bit stumped as to how you would do this given the hardware at the time. Nice job.

[woodyrulesok]

This reminds me of a game on the psOne.

I can't remember what it was though!!!

[lemonlimestiv]

i love how the ball is on beat!!!

[OGRMaster]

I have never came across this game! What year is it? It look whay ahead of its time!

[pseudografx]

2007 actually, with a slight update in 2008 :-) I doubt such a kind of game would have been possible back in the 80s. Now with cross-platform development environments, projects like this may come true.

[theofficalmiga]

It was made in 2007.

[InfreenitydotNet]

This game, and an emulator to play it, can be found on our site.

[scatman64]

i want it on my 360

[anhdysp]

this game just rocks !

[digitaldave1234]

Great music!

[IWindows95I]

yes

[axise100]

Creo que es un juego tecnicamente simple, no hay muchos sprites, así que no puede compararse con la C64.

[IshidaTheQuincy]

Wow, this looks amazing for an Atari game. I might as well try it out someday.

[slimjunks]

that looks like fun, AND amazing... wow... 8-bit?

[cwal213]

that is amazing!

[KinnikuSuguru]

Very interesting

[sonick808]

Possibly THE BEST atari 8-bit game EVER written. Marcin, x-ray and the entire Yoomp! team did an INCREDIBLE job on this!

[olynxmano]

well... 3D ... Everyone today wants cool 3D games. They could had have it back in the 80's already...

But the C64's cpu was too slow for such gaming fun.

Not to mention that the A8 was there allmost 5 years before the C64...

rotfl

[Jawattdenn]

3 years = "almost 5 years"???

[olynxmano]

@Jawattdenn

First Software has been written in 1978...

[waskoma]

to get the facts straight: there are many more 3d games for the c64 than for the atari.

[olynxmano]

@waskoma

Which is a big wrong decision. Look how slow C64 3D is crawling, while the A8 has been able to show the same stuff at a fluent framerate.

[Ahle2]

Same CPU, 80% faster clock speed.

[Jawattdenn]

Which doesn't get you 80% faster CPU. A8 CPU is only 20% faster than C64 CPU on a standard 320x200 gfx mode.

[Ahle2]

I wouldn´t say that 320x200 is standard on either the C64 or the A800. Most games uses 160x200 (160x192 on the A800)

This game seem to use the 128x96 mode though.

[Jawattdenn]

320x200 @ 2 colors is the same as 160x200 @ 4 colors when it comes to DMA load.

Yoomp uses a mode which has less DMA load, which results in approx. 50% faster CPU compared to C64.

[olynxmano]

@Jawattdenn

It's actually 30%, because of the less than available 0,9MHz on the C64. Bad lines and Sprites take also DMA on the C64.

[gamein60seconds]

@olynxmano You should really say the A8 was two years before the VIC20 which is more its stablemate. It is testament to the Jay Miner developed chip set that it managed to survive while commodore dumped the old hardware in favour of some thing more advanced.

[douro20]

@olynxmano

This is 1977 technology here. The video hardware was the same throughout the Atari 8-bit series. Atari developed what was at the time the most sophisticated computer graphics system available.

[MattTheSpratt]

I love how the bounces are quantized to the background music.

[vastenmielinen]

cool game ! i want this !

[Godgotron]

I can see a port of this on DS being a huge hit

[JK47Tubing]

That would be dope to have it on DS. I would play it all damn day. Especially at my job. lol =>

[andersdenkend]

Super great idea!

[CerebralGump]

Thats rather cool... any intrepid coders want to do a 2008 remake with updated graphics ?

[timsteryt]

This actually is a 2008 game - released July 2008! :-)

[pseudografx]

Not really, Yoomp is a 2007 game. Version 1.1 was released last month, but it only introduces several minor enhancements like level passwords or NTSC compatibility.

[kikencorp]

The sound engine is incredible. I love this idea!

[DonamerDragon]

Man, that is awesome! Could you imagine if Atari had been able to keep up with games like that? I mean wow...Nintendo has nothing against that!

[noaheugene20]

holy crap!!! Those are pretty good grpahics for 8 bit. Was this on the atari 2600, the 5200, or the 7800?

[skipbreakfast]

800XL

[JK47Tubing]

Yeah, I remember when I use to have the XE system when I was 7 years old and when I saw this game, i couldn't believe it myself. The music was ahead of it's time too =>

[JK47Tubing]

Yeah, I remember when I use to have the XE system when I was 7 years old and when I saw this game, i couldn't believe it myself. The music was ahead of it's time too =>

[timsteryt]

Are you saying you couldn't believe it when you saw this game back then, or now? Because this game was just released THIS month - July 2008!!! Long live homebrew for the classics!!!

[JK47Tubing]

Wait hold on.......? It was posted about 10 months ago.......then what game am I thinking about? there was a game kinda like this back in the day. Me and my cousin had the XE, which played 800xl games also.......Teach Me => Did someone make this from scratch?

[pseudografx]

This one was released last summer, with an updated version just several weeks ago. No one would dare to code 3D tunnels back in the eighties. The game Yoomp was inspired by was Jump!, which was actually inspired by Trailblazer, and that is probably what you are thinking of.

[JK47Tubing]

That's what it was!!!! Thanks. I knew there a game he had that was different from this. I miss my Atari....

[triplexios]

dobra robota panowie pozdro od blasphemera z pentagram...hehehe

[ratkova]

greath musix!!!

[tosgem]

I'm not an 8-bit person, but I think that is really cool

[panrolpho]

wyśmienite!!!

[MapleStoree]

Amazing - really managed to work the machine to its full capacity, such a shame so few came even close to that technically when it really warranted it in the day. Excellent effort, though of course credit goes to Trailblazer (or perhaps Rainbow Warrior) for inspiration too, no doubt =) 5/5

[gamein60seconds]

Might look like trailnalzer, but it plays very little like it. Far more thought, and less of the hit and miss falling down a hole! Great game, stopped me playing HALO 3!

[RABBIDGamfan]

This seems a lot like how Q? Entertainment would remake Trailblazer. Except there would be a lot more flashy seizure inducing lights, and there would be multiple music tracks.