Archives: Atari 2600 games

China Syndrome

China Syndrome is an Atari 2600 action game from Spectravision, one of the smaller third-party publishers of the early 1980s. An earthquake has damaged the nuclear reactor on Spectra Island, and in a training simulator you steer a…

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Checkers

Atari 2600 Checkers Instructions A New Twist on a Classic Game Checkers, a classic game known by many, has been transformed to allow an entire family to challenge the Activision computer across three difficulty levels. Before jumping into…

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Challenge of Nexar

Atari 2600: The Challenge of Nexar Instruction Manual For Atari and Sears Video Game Systems Welcome to a journey beyond the realms of known galaxies and the constraints of time, to the crucible of inner strength and future…

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Challenge

Challenge is a small maze game from the European label Funvision. You guide a duck from one corner of the screen to the other through a series of walls, while rodents roam the maze and a clock counts…

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Cat Trax

Cat Trax is a maze-chase game for the Atari 2600 made by UA Limited in 1983 and never sold as a normal retail cartridge. You play a cat running through a maze, eating catnip and dodging three dogs,…

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Cathouse Blues

In “Cathouse Blues” for the Atari 2600, you play as a character navigating a neighborhood with the goal of remembering the locations of 7 houses with specific occupants. Your objective is to collect money from a teller and…

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Carnival

In “Carnival” for the Atari 2600, players aim to hit moving targets while managing a finite supply of bullets. The game features both a firing button and left/right controls, with the arcade version offering a two-way joystick for…

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Canyon Bomber

Canyon Bomber is Atari's 1979 Atari 2600 version of its 1977 arcade game, programmed by David Crane. Planes fly across a canyon full of coloured bricks, and all you decide is when to drop a bomb. It is…

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California Games

California Games on the Atari 2600 Introduction:Welcome to the heart of action sports, California, where the sun kisses the shores and the streets buzz with the thrill of competition. California Games is your ticket to the ultimate sports…

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Boing!

In “Boing!” for the Atari 2600, you’re in control of a character known as BUBBLE, navigating through a game using the joystick plugged into the left port. The joystick allows BUBBLE to move up, down, left, or right,…

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