May 2nd, 2015 — 12pm-5pm — Yolo County Public Library, Mary L Stephens Davis branch — Davis, CA

Photos and Flyer

Atari Party 2015 Pre-Show Photos

Stacking up boxes full of gear and give-aways! Photo: Bill Kendrick	Testing out an old stereo, video projector, and PAL-ANTIC-equipped Atari 800XL to make sure they play nicely together. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Testing out some CRT TVs and monitors. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Bill's gear, ready to get loaded and go! Photo: Bill Kendrick
Sacramento News and Review's calendar listing for Atari Party 2015. Photo: Bill Kendrick

Atari Party 2015 Set-Up Photos

Setting up before the show. Back (left to right): Andy O'Brien, Conrad, Philip Louie, Jared Westfall, Dan Kramer, Jeremy Holloway. Seated (left to right): Dan DeVriend, Danny Webster. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Setting up before the show. Sal Esquivel and Bob Woolley. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Raspberry Pi with a homebrew controller. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Closeup of the Raspberry Pi. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Amiga, ST, 600XL Photo: Bill Kendrick	Classic and modern magazines: ANTIC, Classic Gamer Magazine, Syzygy, ANALOG, HiRes, Current Notes. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Dismantled Atari 800 home computer. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Books! Atari Inc: Business is Fun, Chris Crawford on Game Design, Racing the Beam, Terrible Nerd, The First Quarter, Phoenix: The Fall and Rise of Video Games, Supercade, The Art of Video Games, The Atari Book, The Amiga Book. Also, a stack of Retro Gamer magazines, and more. Photo: Bill Kendrick
All lit up: The prize table! Photo: Bill Kendrick	Atari 800 with an Incognito personality board. Atari 800L. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Atari 800XL, STacy portable. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Dan Kramer with an XL, 5200, and Trak-Balls. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Atari 5200, Sega Genesis with four-controller adapter. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Atari STs Photo: Bill Kendrick	Holding a 5200 up sideways (like a Sony PlayStation3) Photo: Dan DeVriend	Atari STs and Amigas Photo: Dan DeVriend
Photo: Dan DeVriend	Tempest Photo: Dan DeVriend	Brothers playing Ms. Pac-Man Photo: Dan DeVriend	Volunteers and exhibitors hanging out before the show starts. Photo: Dan DeVriend

Photos From Atari Party 2015

Atari Party's open to the public! Photo: Bill Kendrick	Entering the Party Photo: Bree Aea	Entering the Party Photo: Bree Aea	Atari Party in full swing. Photo: Mark Silvia
More Atari Party! Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Space Harrier conversion for the Atari 8-bit. CX-40 joystick in the foreground. Photo: Bree Aea	Incognito board installed in Conrad's 800 Photo: Bill Kendrick	Playing Star Raiders Photo: Bill Kendrick
Conrad celebrates his working TT Photo: Bill Kendrick	An AtariMax MyIDE II cartridge, with CompactFlash microdrive, in an Atari 800XL. Photo: Bill Kendrick	An Atari 8-bit demo up on the projector. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Pole Position II on the 7800. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Atari 2600 Centipede on a Flashback Photo: Bill Kendrick	Shadow of the Beast on an Amiga. (It was also available at the show on the Lynx handheld.) Photo: Bill Kendrick	Sal Esquivel. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Amiga 2000 with a CompactFlash drive. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Tempest for the Atari 5200. Unfinished in the 1980s, but its source code was recently found and the game was completed by the original developer, Keithen Heyenga! Photo: Bill Kendrick	Maurice Molyneaux holding an Atari 5200 controller equipped with a paddle. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Atari STacy portable ST. Photo: Bill Kendrick	A The!CART in an Atari 800XL. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Recent homebrew game Dungeon Hunt for the Atari 8-bit. Photo: Bill Kendrick	More Dungeon Hunt. Photo: Bree Aea	Tempest arcade brought by Mark Birsching Photo: Bree Aea	Another shot of Tempest Photo: Nexcra Software
Playing Atari Lynx handhelds. Photo: Bill Kendrick	"Inside an Atari 800" Photo: Bree Aea	Atari 5200. Photo: Bree Aea	Atari 800 Photo: Mark Silvia
Ninja Golf cartridge for the Atari 7800 Photo: Nexcra Software	Ninja Golf for the Atari 7800 Photo: Nexcra Software	Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Photo: Nexcra Software	Dan "The Trak-Ball Man" Kramer, and Mike Albaugh, Atari alumni Photo: Matt Walsh
Jerry Jessop (Atari alumn), Maurice Molyneaux (columnist for ST-Log magazine), and Dan "The Trak-Ball Man" Kramer. Photo: Ryan Riddle (shared via Maurice Molyneaux)	Keithen Hayenga reviewing the manual to his recently-finished Tempest for the 5200. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Dan Kramer, Keithen Hayenga and Jerry Jessop chatting. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Dan and Keithen. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux
Maurice and Dan. Photo: Ryan Riddle (shared via Maurice Molyneaux)	Maurice and Dan. Photo: Ryan Riddle (shared via Maurice Molyneaux)	Dan posting with the 5200 paddle. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Dan and the 5200 paddle. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux
Special version of Atari 800 Missile Command that supports Dan Kramer's prototype 3-button Trak-Ball controller. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Mike Albaugh showing off his "Just Another High-Strung Prima Donna" t-shirt (and also a Steel Talons hat). Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	Mike showing the back of the "prima donna" shirt. Photo: Maurice Molyneaux	A line of Atari STs Photo: Dan DeVriend
Big crowd. Photo: Dan DeVriend	"OctaMED Professional" music tracker on an Amiga 2000 Photo: Dan DeVriend	"Space Harrier" on an ST and an XL! Photo: Dan DeVriend	More Commodore Amigas Photo: Dan DeVriend
"Missile Command", 3-button-Trak-Ball edition on an Atari 8-bit, and "Tempest", recently released for the Atari 5200. Photo: Dan DeVriend	Foreground: enjoying some "Paperboy" on a Sega Genesis. Photo: Dan DeVriend	"Tempest 2000" on an Atari Jaguar. Photo: Dan DeVriend	"Pac-Man" on an Atari 5200. Photo: Dan DeVriend
Starting up "World 1-1" film. Photo: Dan DeVriend	"Todd's Adventure in Slime World" on a Sega Genesis (a game also available on Atari Lynx) Photo: Dan DeVriend	Jumpman under Atari800 emulator, on Rob McMullen's RaspberryPi with home-built controller. Photo: Rob McMullen	Sal and friend's corner of Atari and Amiga gear. Photo: Rob McMullen
Playing games. Ridiculous Reality up on the projector. Photo: Rob McMullen	Party coordinator Bill Kendrick, with his youngest son riding on his shoulders. Photo: Rob McMullen	Tempest Photo: Rob McMullen	Emulated Tempest on a Raspberry Pi. Photo: Rob McMullen
Classic Atari magazines and more. Photo: Rob McMullen	More classic Atari magazines. Photo: Rob McMullen	More magazines! Photo: Rob McMullen	3-base Missile Command on an Atari XL. Photo: Rob McMullen
The easter egg in Atari 2600 Adventure, under Stella on a Raspberry Pi. Photo: Rob McMullen

Atari Party 2015 Prize Winners

Winners from the 3 prize categories picked the prize they wanted (from what was still available). Each attendee received two tickets, which is why some people won twice!

Atari 2600 game system winners. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Winners of one of the two Raspberry Pis Photo: Bill Kendrick	Winners of the book The Art of Video Games. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Winner of the other Raspberry Pi. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Dan "The Trak-Ball Man" Kramer decided to go for a joystick. (Irony?) Photo: Bill Kendrick	Winner of one of the Digital Game Museum shirts. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Another USB joystick adapter. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Neal picked a USB joystick adapter. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Winner of JavaScrpt for Kids. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Wes picked a USB joystick adapter (to go with the 'kind of broken 2600' collection he offered to take off Bill's hands). Photo: Bill Kendrick	Marianne picked Terrible Nerd. Photo: Bill Kendrick	Another prize for him; the other Terrible Nerd. Photo: Bill Kendrick
Winner of Super Scratch Programming Adventure. Photo: Bill Kendrick

Atari Party 2015 Flyer

8.5"x11" flyer for posting on bulletin boards, shop windows, etc.

Atari Party 2015 Flyer (77KB PDF)
(rev. 2, 2015-02-17)
Inkscape SVG source

8.5"x5.5" (as 8.5"x11" 2-up) hand-out for setting stacks out at events, etc.

Atari Party 2015 Handouts (2-up) (106KB PDF)
(rev. 1, 2015-03-09)
Inkscape SVG source

Credits:

Design inspiration: Steven Matarazzo's "Atari Poster Web", 2012

2600 vector sketch inspiration: Atari 2600 wallpaper, author unknown

Created by: Bill Kendrick, 2015, using Inkscape

Photos of Previous Atari Parties

Check out some photos of past Atari Parties and related events!

Atari Party 2009, Davis
Atari Party 2010, Davis
Atari Party 2011, Davis
Retro Gaming for TEENS, 2011/2012, Sacramento area
Digital Game Museum / Cogswell Polytechnical College Atari Party 2012, Sunnyvale
- DGM's photos
- Bill Kendrick's photos
Atari Party 2013, Davis
Atari Party 2014, Sunnyvale

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