Hi, a bit about myself:
Hi, I’m Stephen Mitchell.
I started out writing home computer games in 6502 assembly language when I was a student in the late 1980s, porting titles like “License To Kill” and “Return Of The Jedi” to the BBC Model B home computer.
With my hard earned savings, I bought one of the Atari Lynx development kits.
I felt the Lynx was a revolutionary new console and, having been raised on the Atari VCS/2600, I jumped straight in to writing console games at the end of the 80s.
This resulted in my co-developing Kung Food and other games for Atari corp., through Lore Games, later moving onto Highlander for the Jaguar CD in the 90s (after a short spell at Sega as a Senior Software Engineer).
With the release of PlayStation I started at Sony as an Internal Development Manager, bringing out Total NBA and NBA Shootout ’97.
The late 90s brought me to Europress as Executive Producer on some of their PC and console titles. I contracted out as Diamond Apple Ltd. which kept me busy for the following two decades. This involved work on handheld and other products for Nyko, Midway (through Hand Held Games), Hasbro’s Tiger, MGA and later BDA.
Eventually, through BDA, I moved into making game controllers for PowerA as their Senior Technology Manager for the past five years.
Visiting Atari’s Lombard offices in Chicago, I’m the bearded one. Probably during development of Kung Food.
Lore Design offices during its Jaguar CD game development phase (entrance and office to the left of the car).
Me, somewhere in the US not that long ago.
I’ve moved on from being an employee and jumped straight into starting a business to develop, manufacture and help supply other Retro game devs and indie retailers.
As cartridges are the “Vinyl” of video games, helping indies to make their own Atari 2600 compatible cartridges, whilst making my own, felt right.
Examples of my plastic injected 2600 compatible cartridge shell sets.
FAQs
What will Love8Bit do?
Currently, I make 2600 compatible cartridge “plastic injection” shells, but I plan to do development and cartridge assembly too.
How did you get into Retro cartridge thing?
Well, I had been planning to release my own limited run of 2600 cartridges but could not bear to destroy the 100 original Klax games that I had bought on Ebay.
I looked at 3D prints too, however they were both low fairly quality & quite highly priced.
What does one with these 2600 plastic shell sets?
If you don’t want to destroy old 2600 cartridges and don’t like the low quality and high price of 3D printing, I figure you could just buy my shells to help complete your very own 2600 compatible cartridges.
What else could Love8Bit supply?
I also plan to stock various PCBs for 2600 cartridges and a range of programmable logic chips (PLC), EPROMs, inverter chips, screws, capacitors & resistors so I could help you make an entire assembled cartridge or simply supply you with a sets of kit to solder and assemble yourself.
Hey, I can make both polycarbonate and also ABS plastic cartridge shell sets.
- In solid color ABS or semi-transparent PC.
- Using 4 screws to securely hold popular PCB designs.
- Similar to the later 2600 and 7800 design to allow simple two piece construction.
- It has the same classic label area as the original 2600 cartridges.
It takes over 30 seconds to inject 1 shell set, too long for TikTok?