Archives: Atari 2600 games

Time Pilot

Time Pilot is Coleco's 1983 Atari 2600 version of Konami's arcade shooter, licensed from Konami. You fly a "Timeship" through five periods of aviation history, from wooden biplanes in 1910 to flying saucers in 2001, and in each…

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Thrust

Thrust is a modern homebrew game for the Atari 2600, written by Thomas Jentzsch and released on cartridge by XYPE in 2000. It brings Jeremy C. Smith's gravity game, first published by Superior Software for the BBC Micro…

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Thunderground

Thunderground is a 1983 Atari 2600 cartridge from Sega, programmed by Jeff Lorenz. You drive a digging vehicle called a core capsule through the earth, tunnelling towards six enemy bases while two tanks hunt you through the passages…

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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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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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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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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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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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