Atari 2600 games
Kaboom!
Dec 31, 1981
Kaboom! is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1978 Atari coin-op Avalanche. The gameplay of both games is fundamentally the same, but Kaboom! was re-themed to be about a mad bomber …
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Montezuma's Revenge featuring Panama Joe
Dec 31, 1984
PANAMA JOE, That’s what they call him ‘round these parts; though no one knows his real name or where he comes from. But one thing’s for sure, PANAMA JOE’s a …
Circus Atari
Dec 31, 1979
· Port
of Circus
3 rows of triangular balloons move along the top part of the screen, each overlaid with blue, green, and yellow (colors used in the original version), counting from the top …
Keystone Kapers
Dec 31, 1983
Flash! Harry Hooligan, notorious con-artist, thief and all around-not-a-nice-person, has escaped!! He is now at large and in the vicinity of Southwick‘s Emporium. At this moment, Hooligan is failing every …
Crazy Climber
Oct 1, 1980
Crazy Climber is a coin-operated arcade game produced by Nichibutsu in 1980. It was also released in North America by Taito America Corporation by UA Ltd. in 1982 for the …
Time Pilot
Nov 1, 1982
Time Pilot is a multi-directional scrolling shooter and free-roaming aerial combat arcade game designed by Yoshiki Okamoto, released by Konami in 1982, and distributed in the United States by Centuri. …
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
Dec 31, 1979
The game is similar to the traditional game of tic-tac-toe, but is played on four 4×4 grids stacked vertically; it is basically a computerized version of the board game Qubic …
Atari2600
Atari8bit
TRS-80
Basketball
Dec 31, 1978
Basketball is an Atari 2600 game loosely based on the sport of the same name. The game features a simple game of one-on-one basketball playable by one or two players, …
Atari2600
Atari8bit
Gorf
Dec 31, 1981
Gorf actually consists in the Arcade version of five different types of space shooters. The first one ist basically is a Space Invaders clone. In the second one a formation …
Haunted House
Feb 1, 1982
Haunted House is an Atari 2600 video game written by James Andreasen and published by Atari, Inc. in February 1982. The player, represented by a pair of eyes, must navigate …
Atari2600
Night Driver
Oct 1, 1976
The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as indicated by road side reflectors. The game …
Arcade
Atari2600
C64
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Dec 31, 1982
In Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back the player takes on the role of a Rebel pilot attempting to destroy AT-ATs on Hoth.
Atari2600
intellivision
Alien
Nov 1, 1982
Fox Video Games made the first leap into licensing the Alien property for video games with what was essentially a Pac-Man clone skinned with elements from the 1979 film. Players …
Atari2600
Dodge 'Em
Dec 31, 1980
Dodge 'Em is a 1980 Atari 2600 video game, a driving game based on Sega's Head On (1979). The player controls one car and has to drive counter-clockwise, avoiding computer-controlled …
Atari2600
Jr. Pac-Man
Oct 13, 1983
The gameplay of Jr. Pac-Man is similar to that of its predecessors: The player controls the titular Jr. Pac-Man and scores points by eating all of the dots in the …
Jungle Hunt
Jun 23, 1982
Jungle Hunt is side-scrolling arcade game produced and released by Taito in 1982. It was initially released as Jungle King. Jungle Hunt is one of the first video games to …
Outlaw
Dec 31, 1978
· Port
of Outlaw
A home console port of 1976 Outlaw for the Atari 2600 by then-Atari employee David Crane. This version is more directly comparable to Midway's Gun Fight, allowing two players to …
Arcade
Atari2600
Congo Bongo
Dec 31, 1983
Congo Bongo is an isometric platform arcade game released by Sega in 1983. The game has come to be seen as Sega's answer to the highly successful Donkey Kong game …
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Dragonfire
Dec 31, 1982
Dragons have driven the Royal Court from the Castle "O we are lost, lost" laments the King. "Without our vast treasures we cannot raise an army 'gainst these accursed dragons. …
Fishing Derby
Dec 31, 1980
In Fishing Derby, two fishermen sit on opposite docks over a lake filled with fish (and a shark that passes through). Using the joystick the player is able to move …
Atari2600
Pengo
Sep 26, 1982
The player controls Pengo, a red penguin that resides in the Antarctic. The game takes place in an overhead maze made of ice blocks, where Pengo fights the trolling, blob-like …
Stampede
Dec 31, 1981
The objective of Stampede is to round up all of the cattle you encounter. To do so, the player must lasso each one in order to capture it. The player …
Atari2600
intellivision
Demon Attack
Dec 31, 1982
Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after …
Grand Prix
Dec 31, 1982
The player drives a Formula One car in a time trial on one of four race tracks, each of which has a different difficulty level. Difficulty is gauged by the …
Atari2600
Indy 500
Dec 31, 1977
Indy 500 is a 1977 racing video game developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). It is themed around the Indianapolis 500, …
Atari2600