Timberman – Lumberjack arrives on the Atari XL/XE

LumberJack has appeared on Indie Retro News a number of times over the years, what with Megastyle & Protovision’s C64 release in 2016 and Cobe and Lemming880’s Amiga conversion in 2017. But now it looks as if another version has come into the light, and that is Tomasz “Pecuś” Pecko and Paweł “Pirx” Kalinowski’s Lumberjack game of Timberman. A new Atari XE/XL version of the very enjoyable wood chopping game, where the only challenge is to chop a tree down while trying not get crushed by the tree itself.

And here’s the latest. “We are pleased to present our production Timberman at the 8-bit Atari, which premiered at the 2025 Silly Venture Summer Edition and took first place there. The game involves cutting out subsequent segments of the tree trunk once on the right, once on the left – in such a way as to avoid branches moving down. Moreover, at the top we have a strip that decreases with the passage of time, each impact of the ax increases it slightly. When the belt reaches zero, death also occurs”.

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