Archives: Atari 2600 games

RealSports Soccer

RealSports Soccer is a 1983 Atari soccer game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Michael Sierchio with graphics by Jerome Domurat. It is part of Atari's RealSports series, which tried to bring more realistic sports games to the…

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RealSports Football

RealSports Football is Atari's 1982 American football game for the 2600, designed and programmed by Rob Zdybel. It belongs to Atari's RealSports series and was Atari's attempt to improve on its earlier, much simpler Football cartridge. You call…

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RealSports Volleyball

RealSports Volleyball is a two-on-two beach volleyball game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1982, as part of its RealSports line of sports cartridges. Bob Polaro did the programming and Alan J. Murphy the graphics. It has…

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Red Sea Crossing

Red Sea Crossing is a 1983 Christian action game for the Atari 2600, written by independent programmer Steve Schustack and sold only by mail order under the name Inspirational Video Concepts. You guide Moses across the dry bed…

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Rescue Terra I

Rescue Terra I is a space shooter released in 1982 by VentureVision, a small company from Grand Prairie, Texas. AtariAge credits the programming to Dan Oliver. You fly the F-711 Starwarrior through four very different waves of enemies…

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Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes is an Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox, programmed by John Russell and released in February 1983. It is an odd mix of shooter and building game: you steer a flying Tomato…

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River Raid

River Raid is a 1982 vertically scrolling shooter by Activision, designed and programmed by Carol Shaw. You fly a jet up an endless river, shooting tankers, helicopters, jets and bridges, and you can never let the fuel run…

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River Raid II

River Raid II is Activision's 1988 sequel to River Raid, designed by Dan Kitchen and programmed at Imagineering. You fly an F-14 from an aircraft carrier, cross the sea to a river delta, destroy an enemy bridge and…

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Roc ‘N Rope

Roc 'N Rope is Coleco's 1984 Atari 2600 version of Konami's 1983 arcade game Roc'n Rope. As an explorer in a prehistoric world, you climb from ledge to ledge by firing a rope upward, while dinosaurs and cavemen…

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Room of Doom

Room of Doom is a 1982 single-player shooter for the Atari 2600 from CommaVid, a small company from Aurora, Illinois, programmed by co-founder Irwin Gaines. You are trapped in a room whose walls hide gunmen behind slowly opening…

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