Games: SCSIcide
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If you're a fan of fast-paced paddle games
like Kaboom!, then you'll love SCSIcide for the Atari 2600. In SCSIcide,
you assume the role of a hard drive read head and your mission is to read
the color-coded bits of data as they scream past you on ten separate data
tracks. Read all of the bits in the correct color order before you suffer
a buffer underflow. As you advance to the next platter (level), the data
bits scroll by more quickly!
SCSIcide is a homebrew game for the Atari 2600 written by Joe Grand of
Pixels Past. Originally released in August 2001, SCSIcide has sold over
250 copies and is arguably one of the most popular modern games for the
classic system. Using the paddle controllers, SCSIcide is a dizzying and
addictive game. How far can you go?
As of April 2005, SCSIcide is no longer being produced and has been replaced
with Ultra
SCSIcide.
The development journal and all related SCSIcide information will remain
on this site for educational and historical purposes.
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High
Times magazine #345, High Score: 8 Bits and Proud, July/August 2004
O'Reilly LinuxDevCenter.com:
Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene, May 20, 2004
The SCSIcide Experience: Developing
a Modern Game for a Classic System, July 26, 2003, by Joe Grand for the
2003 Austin Gaming
Exposition program
Gamasutra,
Postmortem: Pixels Past's SCSIcide, February 26, 2003, by Joe Grand
Voted "Best Game release of the year" MyAtari
2002 Awards runner-up
oldergames, October
12, 2002
Good Deal
Games, October 3, 2002
Back In Time, Episode
15, May 7, 2002 (RealAudio)
Pac-News: The Secrets of SCSIcide, March 29, 2002
Salon.com:
Atari Lives!, July 9, 2001
Selected for All Game Guide's Best of
2001 by Chris Cavanaugh, assistant editor
Read reviews of SCSIcide
 Final
release version of SCSIcide (v1.31):
Source code (61KB) and Binary
(4KB)
Click to enlarge:
 
Since August 2001, SCSIcide has been released as special editions at various
classic video game shows, sometimes with a special label design. Some of these
labels are shown here.
 
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