Archives: Atari 2600 games

Survival Run

Survival Run is a first-person space shooter published by Milton Bradley for the Atari 2600 in 1983. You fly a starfighter through a maze of tunnels deep inside an alien planet, shooting guards and force fields while you…

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Sweat! – The Decathlon Game

Sweat! The Decathlon Game is an unreleased Starpath game from 1983, programmed by Scott Nelson. It was meant to be Starpath's answer to Activision's Decathlon, loaded from cassette tape into the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that gave the…

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Survival Island (cassette)

Survival Island is a 1983 action-adventure by Starpath, programmed by Scott Nelson. It was not sold as a normal cartridge but on cassette tape for the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that plugged into the Atari 2600's cartridge slot,…

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Swordfight

Swordfight is a two-player duelling game for the Atari 2600, designed and programmed by Stephen Tatsumi at Mattel Electronics in 1983. Mattel finished it for its M Network label but never released it. The game finally came out…

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Sword of Saros (cassette)

Sword of Saros is a 1983 dungeon adventure for the Starpath Supercharger, the add-on that let the Atari 2600 load bigger games from audio cassettes. Programmed by Jon Leupp and Stephen Landrum, it sends you through an evil…

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Tac-Scan

Tac-Scan is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own vector-graphics arcade shooter from 1982. Instead of one ship, you steer a whole squadron flying in formation, and every ship you lose makes the formation smaller. The home…

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Tennis

Tennis is a 1981 Atari 2600 sports game written by Alan Miller, one of the founders of Activision, and released by Activision in March 1981. You play a singles match against the computer or a friend on a…

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Tapeworm

Tapeworm is a 1982 action game from Spectravision, a small American publisher of Atari 2600 cartridges. You steer Slinky the worm around a walled bean patch, racing a beetle to each bean while dodging a spider and a…

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Tax Avoiders

Tax Avoiders is an Atari 2600 game about personal finance: you help an overtaxed worker called John Q become a millionaire, after taxes, within one year. It was conceived at Dunhill Electronics by Darrell Wagner, billed on the…

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Tanks But No Tanks

Tanks But No Tanks is a tank battle game for the Atari 2600, sold in North America in 1983 by Zimag, a label of Magnetic Tape International. The game itself was made by the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation,…

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