Archives: Atari 2600 games

Video Olympics

Video Olympics is Atari's collection of Pong-style ball games for the Atari 2600, programmed by Joe Decuir. It was one of the nine cartridges available when the console launched in September 1977, and Sears sold it under the…

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Vanguard

Vanguard is Atari's 1982 Atari 2600 conversion of the 1981 arcade shooter from SNK, which Centuri released in North American arcades. Programmed by Dave Payne, it sends your ship through a long enemy tunnel, armed with lasers that…

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Venture

Venture is Coleco's 1982 Atari 2600 version of Exidy's 1981 arcade game. You guide Winky, a small hero armed with a bow, through a dungeon of treasure rooms while unkillable monsters patrol the halls outside. Switching between an…

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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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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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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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Up’n Down

Up'n Down is the Atari 2600 version of Sega's 1983 arcade game, published by Sega for the console in 1984. You drive a little dune buggy, the "Baja Bugger" in the manual, along a winding road packed with…

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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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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 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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