Archives: Atari 2600 games

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 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 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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Spy Hunter

Spy Hunter is Sega's 1984 Atari 2600 version of Bally Midway's 1983 arcade hit. You drive a heavily armed spy car up a scrolling highway, taking out enemy agents before they take you out, and at the waterways…

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Squeeze Box

Squeeze Box is a 1982 Atari 2600 action game from U.S. Games, developed by James Wickstead Design Associates and programmed by Henry Will IV. A gun-toting jailbird is trapped in a room whose walls keep growing in on…

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Squoosh

Squoosh is an unfinished Atari 2600 prototype from Apollo, the company behind games such as Skeet Shoot and Lost Luggage. It was never released. What survives is an early demo of a wine-making game, originally called Vat's Incredible!,…

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Sssnake

Sssnake is a 1982 Atari 2600 shooting game from Data Age, one of the five cartridges the company launched with in October 1982. You are a big-game hunter hiding in an old fortress in the Amazon, shooting prehistoric…

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Stampede

Stampede is a 1981 Activision game designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead, the author of Boxing and Skiing. You ride a horse across a scrolling prairie and lasso runaway cattle before they slip past you. It looks gentle,…

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Star Fox

Star Fox is a 1983 Atari 2600 space shooter from Mythicon, programmed by Bruce de Graaf with sound by Bill Bryner. You fly a lone ship over a hostile planetoid, collecting energy crystals while enemy fighter drones hunt…

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