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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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