Archives: Atari 2600 games

Xevious

Xevious for the Atari 2600 is an unreleased prototype of Namco's 1983 arcade shooter. Tod Frye programmed it at Atari in 1983 and early 1984, and the last known version is close to finished, but the cartridge never…

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Xenophobe

Xenophobe is the Atari 2600 version of Bally Midway's 1987 arcade game, published by Atari Corporation in 1990, near the end of the console's life. Aliens have overrun a chain of space stations, and you beam aboard each…

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Worm War I

Worm War I is a 1982 shooter for the Atari 2600, developed by Sirius Software, programmed by David Lubar and published by 20th Century Fox. You drive a tank up the scrolling screen through the city of Teriyaki,…

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Yars’ Revenge

Yars’ Revenge is a video game developed and published by Atari for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw, who also created the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game for the same platform. Yars’…

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Zaxxon

Zaxxon for the Atari 2600 is Coleco's home version of Sega's arcade shooter, released in 1983. You fly a fighter over heavily armed asteroid fortresses, battle enemy planes in open space and finally face the robot Zaxxon itself.…

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Z-Tack

Z-Tack is a 1983 shooter released on the Bomb label and made by the Asian developer Onbase Co. You fly a small UFO-like craft over a city and destroy the enemy bases hidden among its buildings while they…

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Words-Attack

Words-Attack is a letter-shooting game for the Atari 2600 from Sancho, the brand of Tang's Electronic Co., with a 1983 copyright on its label. It is one of the rarest 2600 cartridges: it only resurfaced in 2002, and…

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Vong

Vong is a 2008 Atari 2600 homebrew by Rick Skrbina. It plays like Pong, but the court is turned 90 degrees, so the paddles sit at the top and bottom of the screen and the ball travels up…

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Vulture Attack

Vulture Attack is K-Tel Vision's release of Condor Attack, a shooter first sold by Ultravision. K-Tel Vision put the same game out under a new name in North America; AtariMania lists it as a Canadian release and dates…

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