Archives: Atari 2600 games
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 Raiders
Star Raiders is the 1982 Atari 2600 version of Doug Neubauer's 1979 space combat game for the Atari 8-bit computers. The 2600 conversion was programmed by Carla Meninsky and published by Atari, with a Sears edition as well.…
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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 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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Stellar Track
Stellar Track is a turn-based space strategy game for the Atari 2600, programmed at Atari by Rob Zdybel and sold only by Sears under its Tele-Games label. It brings the text-based Star Trek game from 1970s university mainframes…
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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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