Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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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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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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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 Tunnel

Space Tunnel is a shooter made by the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation, whose instruction leaflet is dated 1982. Your small ship is trapped in a tunnel with jagged walls on both sides, and UFOs keep appearing to fire…

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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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