Stella's Stocking - Atari 2600 Homebrew

Stella's Stocking is an original Atari 2600 homebrew game published by AtariAge: http://www.atariage.com

Stella's Stocking was the 2007 AtariAge Holiday Cart and now it's available again in case you missed it the first time around! Stella's Stocking isn't one, but FIVE different games! A large team of programmers, artists and designers worked hard to create a very unique offering on the 2600. From the moment you fire up Stella's Stocking you'll realize you have something special. To cram five different games into this cartridge, along with a menu that features quite possibly the best music ever heard in a 2600 game, we created a new 64K board just for this release! This is the first (and presently only) 64K Atari 2600 game that we've published.

Each game included in Stella's Stocking is briefly described below: * Stay Frosty -- You were just chilling out at the North Pole, when a short-circuiting string of Christmas lights on Santa's barn set the reindeer dust on fire. Now magic fireballs are threatening to melt everything. It's up to you to put them out so you can keep your cool, however that's not an easy task for someone made of frozen water! * Elf Dash -- Holly the elf sighed. Santa is on his flight, the warehouse is locked up, and the big year-end party starts in 10 minutes. What a year! The elf magic to make toys load themselves in the sleigh went haywire sending toys flying around knocking elves down. The elevators went nuts too, and won't stop running. Holly grimaced as a loud crash came from warehouse. "I'll deal with that tomorrow.", she promised herself. Ben elf burst in shouting, "Ms. Claus is on a rampage!". "Oh no!" whimpered Holly, "What now?". Ms Claus has an inferiority complex. She hates being relegated to baking cookies and smiling in a grandmotherly way. "She says the party decorations aren't good enough. Here is what she wants.", piped Ben. Holly eyed the list, "Oh great! This stuff is all over the warehouse, and I just finished locking up.". Help Holly collect the items demanded by Ms. Claus in time, or be demoted to cleaning out the stables. * Cold War -- It's war and you're on the front lines! Take control of two snowmen, pack some fresh snow into a frozen ball of destruction, take aim, and...throw! Watch for return fire, as you don't want to be the next snowman to fall in this battle! Blast through fortifications to reach the snowmen across the battlefield! Survive this battle and you won't be turned into a snow cone! * Grandma's Revenge -- You've probably heard about the incident where Grandma had a run-in with a reindeer many a Christmas ago. Well, it's not a legend, and now that Gramdma's out of the hospital she wants her revenge! No sooner than she was able to rise out of her wheelchair, she made her way to the parking lot, stole the fastest vehicle she laid her eyes on, and as she sped off was heard muttering, "I'll have my revenge you red-nosed varmit!" * Tossing Cookies -- 'Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa's reindeer have flown off without him! What's worse is it's a dark and stormy night, so there's lightning-filled clouds to contend with! Help Santa get back his reindeer! You must pilot your sleigh through the dangerous skies, dodging lightning while collecting the magical cookies that help the reindeer fly! Then you must use the cookies to lure the reindeer back to the North Pole! Can you collect all the reindeer in time for Santa's globe-trotting journey?

Stella's Stocking was a collaboration between several homebrew authors and artists, including John Payson, Darrell Spice Jr., Fred Quimby, David Weavil, Robert Mundschau, Chris Read, Nathan Strum, David Vazquez, Dave Exton, and others. Stella's Stocking features in-game artwork by Nathan Strum and David Vazquez (both of whom have contributed to various homebrew projects), and includes a beautifully illustrated label and eight-page manual by Dave Exton, whose brush graces many homebrew games in our store.

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• 2600
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• AtariAge

[cant1rac]

the animation off the snowman its scrolling and movement are easily the best ive seen on the console

[cant1rac]

@dallase1 the same way hi quality audio was ment to be produced in the atari 7800, aided from the catridge and with 64k it has substansialy more resources on it than any atari commercial release back in the day

[1200com]

wow all in hi res and the music is like next gen atari 2600! awesome! I'll favor that

[TheNecropolis20]

this game is for sale right now on ebay but its limeted theres only 1 copy right now availible. its shipping from las vegas where theres home brew games were originally found from a classic gaming expo. these homebrew games are worth the extra dollars if you want to include new titles to your 2600 or 7800 video game library.

[iNils1]

@dallase1 I think it´s that new acessory made by AtariAge that allows way better sound and digital voices and more. Check it out.

[dallase1]

How did they get such good quality music from a Atari VCS?

Is this running on a emulator?

[DarrellSpiceJr]

@606revo Don't know the details of the other games, but Stay Frosty was an original concept by Nathan Strum. You can see his original mockups at my site where I have a page about how it came to be. I also have it set up so you can play it online.

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[supercat5]

@philiptwood -- I did the music for the game. I used a somewhat simplified form of wave-table synthesis. The game Pitfall II by Activision had a specialized chip in the cartridge to do the necessary calculations for 3-voice music; the code would, 15,750 times/second, grab a byte from the chip and send it to the speaker. Stella's Stocking doesn't use a chip--just some super-optimized code which takes generates 4-voice music using 12 instructions that take 46 cycles out of every 76.

[606revo]

2:12 super glob rip-off im guessing all the games on this are rip-offs just havent player the originals not bitchin thou takes a lot of time to do this and im glad homebrew is alive

[dushanostoich]

from where to download :?