Archives: Atari 2600 games
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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Video Chess
Video Chess is Atari's chess cartridge for the 2600, released in November 1979. It was programmed by Larry Wagner and Bob Whitehead, with help from chess expert Julio Kaplan. You play against the computer on a full board,…
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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 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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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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Title Match Pro Wrestling
Title Match Pro Wrestling is a 1987 wrestling game for one or two players, published by Absolute Entertainment, the company Garry Kitchen founded after leaving Activision. It came out late in the Atari 2600's life, and it packs…
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Tomarc the Barbarian
Tomarc the Barbarian is an action game for the Atari 2600 from Xonox, the video game label of the K-tel company. You guide the barbarian Tomarc through a series of caves to rescue Senta, who is held in…
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Towering Inferno
Towering Inferno is a firefighting game released by U.S. Games in 1982, based on the 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno. It was programmed by Paul Allen Newell at Western Technologies. You send firemen up through a burning…
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1983 Atari 2600 game based on the 1974 horror film. It was developed by VSS, Inc., designed by Ed Salvo, and published by Wizard Video Games, a home video label that also…
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