Universal Chaos
Universal Chaos is a fast maze shooter released for the Atari 2600 by Telegames. The game started life as CBS Electronics' home version of Targ, Exidy's 1980 arcade game, which CBS worked on around 1983 but never released.…
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Video Life
Video Life is a CommaVid cartridge from the early 1980s that brings John Conway's "Game of Life" to the Atari 2600. It is not a game you win or lose: you draw a pattern of dots, start it,…
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Video Jogger
Video Jogger is a 1983 exercise cartridge for the Atari 2600 from Exus Corporation. It was not made for a joystick: you play it by running in place on the Foot Craz Activity Pad, a floor mat with…
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Unknown Activision Game #2
Unknown Activision Game #2 is an unreleased Activision prototype from 1983 that has since been identified as Hard Head. You play a small alien who builds a tower out of blocks and climbs it to escape to the…
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Unknown Datatech Game
Unknown Datatech Game is a strange little maze game for the Atari 2600, released by Datatech Enterprises and dated 1983. You walk along invisible paths on a grid to reach the symbols at the top of the screen,…
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Unknown Activision Game #1
Unknown Activision Game #1 is an unreleased Activision puzzle prototype for the Atari 2600. It plays like a cross between a Rubik's Cube and a sliding-tile puzzle: you shift rows and columns of coloured squares until every row…
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Vault Assault
Vault Assault is a homebrew Atari 2600 game written by Brian Prescott and released on cartridge in 2001. It is based on Space Zap, a 1980 arcade game licensed to Midway: you sit in a vault in the…
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Unknown 20th Century Fox Game
Unknown 20th Century Fox Game is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype that is attributed to 20th Century Fox, whose Fox Video Games label published 2600 cartridges in 1982 and 1983. The name is only a placeholder: the prototype's…
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