The Atari 2600 was released in 1977, and now there’s finally a book about writing games for it!

My partner, Steven Hugg, just released a manual and companion Web-based IDE that’ll teach you about the 6502 CPU, NTSC frames, scanlines, cycle counting, players, missiles, collisions, procedural generation, pseudo-3D, and more. Steve covers the same programming tricks that master programmers used to make classic games. Create your own graphics and sound, and share your games with friends!

Check the IDE out at 8bitworkshop.com and while you’re there, check out the book!