Archives: Atari 2600 games

Wall Ball

Wall Ball is a one-player 3-D brick-breaking game published in 1983 by Avalon Hill, a company best known for its board games. Duncan Scott programmed it, basing it on Breakthru, an earlier computer game by Britt Monk from…

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Wall Jump Ninja (PAL60)

Wall Jump Ninja is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Walaber, the independent developer behind the JellyCar games. You are a ninja in training who has to master a single move, the wall jump, and survive as long…

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Wings

Wings is an unreleased air combat simulator made by CBS Electronics for the Atari 2600 in 1983 and programmed by Stuart Ross. It was cancelled only weeks before it was due in shops, and the prototype did not…

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Warplock

As you navigate your spacecraft to the farthest corners of the galaxy, along the edges of hyperspace and hypertime, you find yourself caught in a Space/Time Warp that paralyzes your vessel. Suddenly, a group of space pirates appears,…

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Wing War

Wing War is a 1983 Imagic action game in which you fly a dragon out of its den to hunt enemies and bring home magic crystals. It was programmed by Michael Greene, and it has an unusual place…

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Warlords

Warlords is a castle-smashing paddle game for up to four players, programmed by Carla Meninsky and released by Atari in 1981, with a Sears edition as well. Each player guards a castle in one corner of the screen…

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Walker

Walker is a little-known Atari 2600 cartridge released in 1983 by Suntek for PAL televisions. The same game was sold in Germany by the retailer Quelle as Schussel, der Polizistenschreck (roughly "Schussel, terror of the police"), and a…

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Wall Jump Ninja (PAL)

Wall Jump Ninja is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Walaber, the independent developer behind the JellyCar games. You play a ninja in training who has to master one move: the wall jump. It is a quick, one-button…

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Wizard

Wizard is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from 1980, programmed at Atari by Chris Crawford. It is a small maze duel between a wizard and an invisible creature, and it has one unusual idea: in two-player mode, the…

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Wizard of Wor

Wizard of Wor is the Atari 2600 version of Midway's 1981 arcade maze shooter. CBS Electronics published it in December 1982, and the conversion was made by Roklan. You lead a squad of Worriors through a series of…

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