Archives: Atari 2600 games

Shooting Arcade

Shooting Arcade is an unreleased Atari 2600 target-shooting game made for Atari's light gun. It was developed in Mexico by Agustin Ortiz of the company Heuristica, with final changes by Tod Frye, and the last builds date from…

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Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot is an Atari 2600 action game published by Xonox, the video game label of the record company K-tel. You ride the winged horse Pegasus, flap your way across the sky and joust with flying monsters and…

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Skate Boardin’: A Radical Adventure

Skate Boardin' is a 1987 skateboarding game for the Atari 2600, designed by David Crane and released by Absolute Entertainment. You are late for school, and overnight someone has filled the streets with ramps, tubes and hurdles. You…

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Skeet Shoot

Skeet Shoot is a simple target-shooting game from 1981 and the very first cartridge released by Games by Apollo. Ed Salvo programmed it on his own before the company even existed as a game studio. You stand at…

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Skiing

Skiing is a 1980 Activision cartridge designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead. You steer a skier down slalom courses and downhill runs, dodging trees, flags and moguls in a race against the clock. There are no enemies and…

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Sky Diver

Sky Diver is a two-player parachuting game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1979, based on its 1978 arcade game of the same name. Jim Huether programmed the home version, and Sears sold it in its own…

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Sky Jinks

Sky Jinks is a 1982 air racing game for the Atari 2600, designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead for Activision. You fly a low-level P41 racer through a course of pylons, watched over from above as the ground…

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Sky Patrol

Sky Patrol is an unfinished Atari 2600 prototype from Imagic, programmed by Brad Stewart in 1982. You fly a hot air balloon over enemy territory, riding the wind at different heights. It was shown at the 1982 CES…

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Sky Skipper

Sky Skipper is Parker Brothers' 1983 Atari 2600 version of a Nintendo arcade game from 1981. You fly a small biplane over a walled course, bombing gorillas to knock them out so their cages spring open, then swoop…

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Slot Machine

Slot Machine is a 1979 Atari 2600 cartridge that turns the console into a three-reel casino slot machine. It was programmed by David Crane, who later co-founded Activision, and Sears sold it under the name Slots. There is…

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