6502 Games

Build your own retro games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. From Super Mario Bros to The Legend of Zelda, games of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) defined the childhoods of millions. Now with the power of modern tools you can start creating NES games of your very own! This all-practical beginner's guide will show you how to get started, with guidance on everything from graphics and music, to the Assembler language needed to get the most out of the NES, to enemy AI. Inside Classic Game Programming on the NES you’ll learn how to: Use the 6502 Assembler language to create your own game Create and display tile and sprite graphics Play sound effects and music Design and develop your own action game from scratch Do you have an amazing idea for a NES game you’ve been itching to turn into reality? Classic Game Programming on the NES will show you how! You don’t need any game development experience or specialist programming skills. You don’t need a team of developers and graphic artists. This one-stop guide teaches you everything you need to know, step-by-step. About the book Classic Game Programming on the NES is a comprehensive guide to developing your first retro game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It brings together the scattered secrets of NES development, distilling them into clear instructions on how to get started, what your game needs to work, and what tools you’ll need to use. Learn about the NES’s awesome and unique architecture, the surprisingly simple 6502 Assembler language, game logic, and more. Throughout, all concepts are illustrated with a simple space-based shoot-em-up that’s based on the awesome Astrosmash game reminiscent of games from your childhood. About the reader For anyone interested in building their own retro games! No programming experience required. About the author Tony Cruise has worked in IT and application development for over 40 years, starting with programming and releasing games for multiple 8-bit systems in the 80’s. He is the author of over 100 titles, books and magazine articles. Today Tony is actively writing new games, utilities and creating resources for other developers working with 8 and 16-bit systems.

My two biggest passions concerning computers are hardware and gaming. I wrote this book because I don’t want that important pieces of history regarding computer hardware, games and, in a smaller amount the 80’s operating systems to be forgotten and lost. I want everyone to appreciate the hardware and software industry and especially the people behind them as they worked many days and nights to deliver us fast and advanced computers and entertaining and complex games.

The ultimate guide to retro game consoles, an ideal reference for collectors and enthusiasts.. Write ups, specs and pictures of over 85 collectible consoles and variant models from 1972 to 2000. From the Magnavox Odyssey right through to the Sega Dreamcast. Including the history of the evolution of electronic gaming and advice on how to collect classic consoles. A comprehensive database of collectible consoles. Written by fellow collectors and enthusiasts.

The Atari 2600 was released in 1977, and now there's finally a book about how to write games for it! You'll learn about the 6502 CPU, NTSC frames, scanlines, cycle counting, players, missiles, collisions, procedural generation, pseudo-3D, and more. While using the manual, take advantage of our Web-based IDE to write 6502 assembly code, and see your code run instantly in the browser. We'll cover the same programming tricks that master programmers used to make classic games. Create your own graphics and sound, and share your games with friends!

Now in its second edition, the Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming is the definitive, go-to resource for anyone interested in the diverse and expanding video game industry. This three-volume encyclopedia covers all things video games, including the games themselves, the companies that make them, and the people who play them. Written by scholars who are exceptionally knowledgeable in the field of video game studies, it notes genres, institutions, important concepts, theoretical concerns, and more and is the most comprehensive encyclopedia of video games of its kind, covering video games throughout all periods of their existence and geographically around the world. This is the second edition of Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, originally published in 2012. All of the entries have been revised to accommodate changes in the industry, and an additional volume has been added to address the recent developments, advances, and changes that have occurred in this ever-evolving field. This set is a vital resource for scholars and video game aficionados alike.

Learn how to program games for the NES! You'll learn how to draw text, scroll the screen, animate sprites, create a status bar, decompress title screens, play background music and sound effects and more. While using the book, take advantage of our Web-based IDE to see your code run instantly in the browser. We'll also talk about different "mappers" which add extra ROM and additional features to cartridges. Most of the examples use the CC65 C compiler using the NESLib library. We'll also write 6502 assembly language, programming the PPU and APU directly, and carefully timing our code to produce advanced psuedo-3D raster effects. Create your own graphics and sound, and share your games with friends!