{"id":571,"date":"2021-05-28T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/?p=571"},"modified":"2025-09-29T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:17:10","slug":"new-video-shorts-archon-atari-8-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/2021\/05\/new-video-shorts-archon-atari-8-bit\/","title":{"rendered":"New video: Shorts \u2013 Archon (Atari 8-bit)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My new \u201cshorts\u201d video examines <em>Archon: The Light and the Dark<\/em> from 1983 by Free Fall Associates on the Atari 8-bit family. As always, it features representative scenes from the game, accompanied by short facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a legal download source for the Atari 8-bit version, but the Amiga version from 1986 can be legally downloaded at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exotica.org.uk\/mirrors\/ami_sector_one\/archon.htm\">Ami Sector One<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shorts: Archon (Atari 8-bit)\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/spectra.video\/videos\/embed\/dYe86ZJ7PtpUhJoG9AanUU\" allow=\"fullscreen\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-forms\" style=\"border: 0px;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In meinem neuen \u201eShorts\u201c-Video geht es um <em>Archon: The Light and the Dark<\/em> aus dem Jahr 1983 von Free Fall Associates auf der Atari-8-Bit-Familie. Wie immer biete ich repr\u00e4sentative Ausschnitte aus dem Spiel, begleitet von kurzen Fakten. (Das Video ist in englischer Sprache mit optionalen deutschen Untertiteln.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">F\u00fcr die Atari-8-Bit-Version scheint es keine legale Downloadquelle zu geben, aber die Amiga-Version von 1986 kann bei <a href=\"https:\/\/www.exotica.org.uk\/mirrors\/ami_sector_one\/archon.htm\">Ami Sector One<\/a> legal heruntergeladen werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Game credits\/Spielcredits:<\/strong> Design: Jon Freeman; Design and graphics: Paul Reiche III; Programming: Anne Westfall; Music: Tommy V. Dunbar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update, 29 Sep 2025:<\/strong> I have replaced the embedded YouTube video with the video on my PeerTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new \u201cshorts\u201d video examines Archon: The Light and the Dark from 1983 by Free Fall Associates on the Atari 8-bit family. As always, it features representative scenes from the game, accompanied by short facts. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a legal download source for the Atari 8-bit version, but the Amiga version from 1986 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":572,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-electronic-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintrospektiv.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}