 Game On, a new videogame exhibit soon appearing at the Barbican Gallery in London, "will trace the 40 year history of computer games from Space War, which was made way back in 1962, right up to the latest, as yet unreleased games from the likes of Nintendo, Sony, Sega, and Microsoft". You can read more in this article at Wired. Game On is scheduled to be at the Barbican from May 16th through September 15th, and is scheduled to travel to the US in 2003. Finally, there will be an accompanying book entitled Game On from Laurence King Publishing, but it does not appear to be available yet.
 Junies Creations has announced that they have opened an online store to sell Atari 2600 and 7800 merchandise. If you're looking for an alternative to the stock Atari controllers, Junies has modified NES, Genesis and Playstation controllers to work on the 2600 and 7800. Frequent AtariAge visitor StanJr has reviewed one of Junie's custom controllers over on AtariInvader. You can discuss Junies Creations' new store and the custom products they're creating with Tom Cosby Jr. (founder of Junies Creations) and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
 Bill Kendrick has ported his Kaboom clone, Mad Bomber, to the Zuarus PDA. Here's what Bill had to say:
"I've ported Mad Bomber, my clone of the classic Activision game "Kaboom!", to the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-based PDA! Mad Bomber was originally released for Linux, and is also available for Windows and BeOS. It was written using SDL, so it should also run on MacOS, MacOSX, Amiga, Atari ST, and other Unixes! It's released as Open Source, under the GNU General Public License. Enjoy!"
 Yoshi DeHerrera of TechTV's The Screen Savers has put together a hybrid PC and game console system with the following systems installed: Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, Sony Playstation 2, and a custom PC. The systems are all crammed into an aluminum Lian-Li PC-76 case, with all the necessary ports, cartridge connectors and optical drives exposed for easy access. Detailed information about this project as well as pictures of the assembled box can be viewed here. You can also read more about this hybrid machine on Slashdot.org as well as discuss it with other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
 Lee Krueger of ResQsoft Productions has informed us that he now has X3V0LuX and NWCGE Invaders for the Atari 2600 back in stock. These games were released at last month's NWCGE Expo 2K2, along with NTSC versions of Klax and Sentinel (both of which are presently out of stock). These games are complete with a unique label, box, and in the case of X3V0LuX, instructions. Ordering information as well as the story of X3V0LuX can be found here. If you're interested in ordering copies of these games don't dawdle, as Lee says there are less than 20 copies of each left!
 Ron Lloyd, aka Caféman, has updated his Koffi: Yellow Kopter development page with the latest news as well as a new demo you can download and try. Your goal as Koffi, a little "Kopter", is to save the forests from an evil stormcloud named Pyro. The current demo represents a roughly 55% complete version of the game. In addition, Connect Emulation has posted an interview with Caféman. To discuss Koffi with Caféman, please visit our Atari 5200 Forum.
 Cassidy Nolen has announced that he will be selling boxed Atari 2600 Polo carts at next week's PhillyClassic 3 expo. Polo was written for Atari by Carol Shaw, who is best known for creating Activision's popular River Raid. However, Polo was never released by Atari. Cassidy's release of Polo will be complete with a full color Atari style box, label, and manual. You can discuss this release with Cassidy and other AtariAge visitors in our Atari 2600 Forum.
 Atari2600.com has announced a Bugs Bunny Easter Egg promotion to take place at the upcoming PhillyClassic 3 expo. The Atari 2600 Bugs Bunny game scheduled for release on Saturday 27th at 12:30pm contains a hidden message from game programmer Bob Polaro himself, Bob and Graphic Artist Alan Murphy's initials. Be the first to successfully find the initials, crack the Bugs Bunny Easter Egg, and win two weekend passes to Classic Gaming Expo 2K2 including two nights at the Plaza Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas compliments of Atari2600.com. You can read more about the upcoming Bugs Bunny release here, including a picture of the box artwork.
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Atari 5200 Meteorites was originally called Disasteroids.
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