Archives: Atari 2600 games

Star Wars: The Arcade Game

Star Wars: The Arcade Game is Parker Brothers' 1984 Atari 2600 conversion of Atari's 1983 Star Wars arcade machine. As Luke Skywalker in an X-wing, you fight TIE fighters, fly over the surface of the Death Star and…

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Stargate

Stargate is Atari's 2600 version of the 1981 Williams arcade sequel to Defender, created by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar of Vid Kidz. Bill Aspromonte programmed the cartridge and Andrew Fuchs did the graphics and sound. You fly…

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Stargunner

Stargunner is a horizontally scrolling space shooter for the Atari 2600, designed by Alex Leavens and published by the small Californian company Telesys. It plays much like Defender without the people to rescue: you fly back and forth…

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Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is a 1982 Atari 2600 game from Parker Brothers, programmed by Rex Bradford. It was the first licensed Star Wars video game, and it recreates one famous scene from the film: Rebel…

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Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 conversion of its own Star Trek arcade game, programmed by Jeff Lorenz. You command the USS Enterprise, fight Klingon cruisers, dock with starbases to repair and rearm, and…

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Star Ship

Star Ship is one of the nine cartridges available when the Atari Video Computer System (later called the Atari 2600) launched in September 1977. It was programmed by Bob Whitehead, who also wrote the launch title Blackjack, and…

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Star Strike

Star Strike is the Atari 2600 version of the 1981 Intellivision game of the same name, released by Mattel under its M Network label. AtariAge credits Dave Akers with the 2600 programming. You fly a small ship down…

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Stell-A-Sketch/Okie Dokie

Stell-A-Sketch is a homebrew drawing program for the Atari 2600, written by Bob Colbert in 1997. It turns the console into a copy of the Etch A Sketch toy: you move a point around the screen and it…

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Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-ups

Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-Ups is a 1983 Atari 2600 puzzle game for young children, published by Parker Brothers and programmed by Dawn Stockbridge. The Purple Pieman has cast a spell over Strawberryland and scrambled the characters' heads, bodies…

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