Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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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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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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Tank Brigade

Tank Brigade is Panda's 1983 NTSC release of Phantom Tank, a tank battle game made by the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation. Panda sold it in North America as model 101. It is the same game as the other…

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Task Force

Task Force is a shooting-gallery game for the Atari 2600, released by Froggo in the late 1980s. It is not a new game: it is Spectravision's 1983 cartridge Gangster Alley with a new title and a new story.…

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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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Swordquest: Earthworld

Swordquest: Earthworld is the first of Atari's three Swordquest adventure games for the 2600, released in October 1982. You wander through twelve rooms named after the signs of the zodiac, carry magical objects from room to room and…

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Tempest

Tempest for the Atari 2600 is an unfinished prototype of Atari's 1981 arcade game by Dave Theurer. The arcade original used a colour vector screen and a spinning dial to move a claw-shaped ship around the rim of…

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Tapper

Tapper puts you behind the counter as a bartender trying to keep four busy bars supplied with drinks. It is the Atari 2600 version of Bally Midway's 1984 arcade game, converted by Beck-Tech and published by Sega later…

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Street Racer

Street Racer is one of the nine cartridges that were on sale when the Atari 2600 launched in September 1977. Larry Kaplan programmed it, and Sears sold its own version as Speedway II. Despite the name, it is…

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