Archives: Atari 2600 games

Spacechase

Spacechase is a space shooter from Games by Apollo, a small company from Richardson, Texas, that made games for the Atari 2600. It was designed and programmed by Ed Salvo and came out in early 1982. You fly…

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Sprint Master

Sprint Master is a top-down racing game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1988, late in the console's life. It was programmed by Bob Polaro. One or two players race tiny cars around a choice of tracks,…

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Springer

Springer is a single-screen platform game released by Tigervision for the Atari 2600. You play a rabbit hopping from cloud to cloud towards the sun, picking up objects and dealing with eggs that hatch into dragons if you…

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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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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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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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Squish ‘Em (PAL)

Squish 'Em is a 2007 homebrew game for the Atari 2600 by Bob Montgomery. It is a close conversion of Squish 'em, a 1983 climbing game for the Atari 8-bit computers published by Sirius Software. You climb unfinished…

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Squish ‘Em (NTSC)

This is the NTSC version of Squish 'Em, Bob Montgomery's 2007 Atari 2600 homebrew conversion of the 1983 Atari 8-bit climbing game from Sirius Software. You climb tall, unfinished buildings floor by floor to reach a case of…

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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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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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