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 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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Video Pinball
Video Pinball is a pinball game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Bob Smith and published by Atari in 1981. Sears sold it under the name Arcade Pinball. The table has flippers, a plunger, bumpers, spinners, drop targets…
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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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Tron: Deadly Discs
Tron: Deadly Discs is an arena action game based on Disney's 1982 film Tron. It started life on Mattel's Intellivision, and this Atari 2600 version came out under Mattel's M Network label in early 1983. The conversion was…
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