While we’ve seen many Mini consoles in recent years, the Atari 2600+ is a far more ambitious system. Rather than being stuffed full of games, it will allow you to play the vast majority of your classic Atari 2600 and 7800 games, along with homebrew titles and any new games that Atari releases for the system. You can read all about it on page 32. To help explain the popularity of Atari’s original iconic console, we spoke to a number of developers, including David Crane, about coding games for the system as well. So that’s a double helping of Atari goodness for you to enjoy.
Elsewhere in the issue you’ll find the evolution of Disney’s beloved Illusion series, the creation of Parasol Stars, how Jeff Minter crafted Ancipital for the Commodore 64 and the difficulties Neversoft faced creating Spider-Man. We also quiz numerous artists about the gorgeous maps they made for many big-box computer games and chat to Paul Cuisset about his interesting career.