Into The Vertical Blank
A Podcast about growing with a twin brother up In the 70s and 80s, at the dawn of video games, navigating family strife, punk rock, Star Wars obsessions, and trying to understand the world while developing an inexplicable love for everything “Atari”. -- In this podcast we discuss Atari computers and systems, new and old, review new games we collect, talk about all the systems, and the significance they had in our lives and the lives of others, and even talk about them in an historical context with the backdrop the times they were released, and how they are being used now. We do all this in an effort to finally understand the answer to this existential question: what does it mean to have grown up in the generation of "the Vertical blank." Credits: Written, Engineered and Produced by Jeff Fulton @8bitrocket With help from Steve Fulton @fultonbot Branding by Daryl Litts @daryllitts
Episodes
The Atari 400 Mini. Honest First Impressions from old skool Atari 8bit owning twins
The Atari 400 mini arrived for both of us late last week. Here is our very candid first few discussions on what we like and dislike about the system.
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400 Mini
We take a deep dive into the Atari 400 mini, discuss what we know, the features, all the included games, plus many other games we'd like to see.
Watch the video version here:
Atari 400 Mini -BLOWOUT! All the Games and More. - YouTube
Late night fuel support appreciated but not demanded : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/intotheverticalblank
All music, audio / video production. writing and game play by #JeffFulton and or #SteveFulton unl...
A visit to VCF So Cal. 2024.
Groups, Podcasts, Publication Highlighted: -
VCF So. Cal: https://www.vcfsocal.com/
-Atari Video Music Garage: https://www.youtube.com/@AtariVideoMusic
-Intellivision Blue Sky Rangers: https://www.ebay.com/str/blueskyrangers
-Intellivisionaries: http://intellivisionaries.com/
-Old School Gamer Magazine: https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/
-Atari Projects: https://atariprojects.org/
-Antic: https://...
This is our new "second" theme song "Generation Atari - Out Of The Vertical Blank".
Music by Tony Longworth
We interview the Vintnerds about the upcoming, inaugural Vintage Computer Festival Southern California (VCF So. Call), Feb. 17, 18 2024 VCF links:
Buy tickets / sponsor / donate / vend etc. https://www.vcfsocal.com/
New theme music "Out Of The Vertical Blank" by Tony Longworth
Late night fuel support appreciated but not demanded : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/intothev...
All music, audio / video production. writing and game play by...
The history of the Atari ST in the USA #1.
Video Version
https://youtu.be/xxe4cV1eydY?si=0b6_K1s-Y7sLDf0s
We continue taking a look at Atari after the Warner Sale specifically focusing on ST Log magazine which is still an insert into American Atari 8bit Computer Magazine, Analog at this point in history. Our focus is the ST and as entertainment machi...
Republished Decamber 24th 2023
From 2019: The best @#$! Christmas Ever!
The Season 2 finale of Into The Vertical Blank. In this episode we pull out all the stops and explain exactly why Atari means so much to us. This honest, naked, all-cards-on-the-table, frank episode includes an Eponymous Story named "The Best #*@! Christmas Ever" that tells all. There is also discussion and a remix that incorporates the entirety of Season 2. Thi...
#JamieLendino, #ExtremeTech 's Editor, is the Author of books on the #Atari8bit Computers, #Atari2600, #AtariST, Classic Arcade machines and games in the DOSs era. We sit down to discuss his books, focusing on the second edition of Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, but end up discussing all of them.
The Full...
In 1982 I was enthralled with Pac-Man. A Pee-Chee folder I found in box 40 years later remined me of that time: when anything, even growing-up and working for Atari, seemed possible.
Watch video version here: (1) Punker Pac-Man and the Mindless Generation - YouTube
Original story published in the Easy Reader as "Punker Pac-Man: An ode to the Mindless Generation, and The Guild Drug" - Easy Reader News: https://easyreadernews.com...
This is a better produced version of the the story "The Vindication Of Desert Falcon" was was read as part of S6:E5 The Vindication of Desert Falcon. Interview with GCC's Michael Feinstein.
There is also a video version here:
(5) My Existential Journey Into Desert Falcon - YouTube
All music, video production. writing and game play by
New, full version, remastered, new content, new edits, full HD presentation.
GCC were masters of video game design in the early 1980's. They created Ms. Pac-Man and went on to become a "secret" development house for Atari. They are responsible for many golden age Atari games, but so far, the credits for their games have been incomplete and hard to locate. After working for 5 years, Into The Vertical Blank may have finally "cracked t...
S6e10: Jeff Minter, Giles and Zarjaz with Tony Longworth - Heart of Neon Soundtrack Composer
The full video production of our Mini Jeff Minter retrospective and Interview with Tony Longworth about the Heart of Neon Documentary is also published here: https://youtu.be/k05l2GdNvxM
as Jeff Minter, Giles and Zar...
Lost Credit: The Secret Atari Heroes of GCC (part1)
Part 2 of the story: GCC were masters of video game design in the early 1980's. They created Ms. Pac-Man and went on to become a "secret" development house for Atari. They are responsible for many golden age Atari games, but so far, the credits for their games have been incomplete and hard to locate. After working for 5 years, Into The Vertical Blank may have finally "cracked the ...
S6:E8:Goth and Leong Atari ST Bedroom Coding Heroes
Gary “Goth” Wheaton and Robert Leong are two of the more unsung heroes of the Atari SY Bedroom Game coding Underground. In this episode we take a well deserved if all too brief look at some of their combined and separate efforts.
I started down a rabbit h...
Lost Credit: The Secret Atari Heroes of GCC (part1)
GCC were masters of video game design in the early 1980's. They created Ms. Pac-Man and went on to become a "secret" development house for Atari. They are responsible for many golden age Atari games, but so far, the credits for their games have been incomplete and hard to locate. After working for 5 years, Into The Vertical Blank may have finally "cracked the code" on the credits ...
Just like your grandma, your kid brother, your old-man-cringe game-playing uncle, your dental hygienist and that surprisingly personable Uber driver that picked you up this morning, we ALSO now have a podcast episode where we discuss the new Atari 2600+ Hint: We like it, for what it is, but have some reservations...just like everyone else.
Late night fuel support appreciated but not demanded : https://www.buymeacoffee.com/intotheve...
S6:E5 The Vindication of Desert Falcon. Interview with GCC's Michael Feinstein
This new full video podcast explores the legacy of the first original title for the Atari 7800 and the last title by GCC for the system they created, Desert Falcon. Join us in conversation with GCC's Michael Feinstein (Credits: Atari 2600: Phoenix, Battlezone, Jungle Hunt, Jous...
S6:E4 Inflection point! Amico v. Atari. Plus Homebrew with STOS and 7800 Basic
In this episode we have a frank discussion on the state of Amico and Atari.
Notes
STOS 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQy2ZZjapGE&t=5s...
In this episode the brothers interview fellow Atari NUTCASE, Ed Salisbury, of the Atari and Retro / Classic gaming YouTube channel, Mission Ed possible. They discuss everything about growing up in Generation Atari from the 2600 to the Atari 8bit Computers, through the ST and beyond.
We apologize for the echo in the interview section, it was conducted in Je...
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