Archives: Atari 2600 games

Track & Field

Track & Field is Atari's 1984 Atari 2600 version of Konami's 1983 arcade hit. It was programmed at General Computer Corporation (GCC) by Seth Lipkin, Jacques Hugon and Allen Wells. You compete in six athletics events, from the…

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island is a little-known PAL cartridge for the Atari 2600, sold under the Suntek label with the model number SS-026. It is not an original title: it is the same game that the company Home Vision released…

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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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Threshold

Threshold is a space shooter that Tigervision released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It is a conversion of Warren Schwader's 1981 Apple II game from On-Line Systems, the company later known as Sierra. Waves of six alien…

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The Year 1999

The Year 1999 is a PAL cartridge from Rainbow Vision (Suntek), model SS-008, sold in Australia. It is not an original game: emulator databases identify it as Ultravision's shooter Condor Attack under a new name, like several other…

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Thwocker

Thwocker is an unreleased Activision prototype for the Atari 2600, programmed by Charlie Heath, the designer of Reactor. It was worked on in 1984 and has been described as "Joust with musical instruments": you guide a bouncing little…

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Trick Shot

Trick Shot is a pool and billiards game for the Atari 2600, designed by Dennis Koble and released by Imagic in April 1982. It was one of the new company's first three cartridges, alongside Demon Attack and Star…

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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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