Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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Solar Fox

Solar Fox is CBS Electronics' 1983 Atari 2600 conversion of the 1981 Bally Midway arcade game, programmed by Bob Curtiss. You steer an unarmed starship around a grid of solar cells, collecting every one while two guards on…

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Solar Storm

Solar Storm is a 1983 space shooter for the Atari 2600 from Imagic, programmed by Dennis Koble. A nearby sun has exploded, and you steer a laser ship along the surface of your planet, shooting down the debris…

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Sorcerer

Sorcerer is a 1983 action game for the Atari 2600 from Mythicon, a small American publisher. It was programmed by Bruce de Graaf and was Mythicon's first cartridge (model number 1001). You play a good sorcerer riding a…

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Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Sorcerer's Apprentice is a 1983 Atari 2600 game based on the Mickey Mouse segment of Disney's film Fantasia. Peter Niday designed and programmed it, with music by Robert Vieira, and Atari released it in December 1983 for younger…

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Sound X

Sound X is not a game but a sound experimenting cartridge for the Atari 2600, written by the hobbyist programmer Ed Federmeyer in the mid-1990s. It lets you explore the noises the console's sound chip can make. Its…

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Space Adventure

Space Adventure is a renamed release of Flash Gordon, the Atari 2600 shooter that David Lubar designed at Sirius Software for 20th Century Fox. This version was sold under the name of Zellers, the Canadian department store chain,…

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Space Attack

Space Attack is the Atari 2600 version of the Intellivision game Space Battle, released by M Network, Mattel's label for Atari 2600 cartridges. AtariAge credits Bruce Pedersen and Hal Finney as its programmers. It mixes a strategy map…

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Space Jockey

Space Jockey is a 1982 side-scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600 and the first game from U.S. Games, sold under its Vidtec label. It was the first video game by Garry Kitchen, who built it at James Wickstead…

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Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space

Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space is a 1983 flight simulator from Activision, programmed by Jessica Stevens (credited at the time as Steve Kitchen). You take the Space Shuttle Discovery through a complete mission: launch, orbit, docking with…

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