Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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Rubik’s Cube 3D

Rubik's Cube 3D (also known as 3-D Rubik's Cube) is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype programmed by Peter C. Niday at Atari in 1982. It is a completely different game from the Rubik's Cube cartridge that Atari did…

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Rubik’s Cube

Rubik's Cube is the officially licensed re-release of Atari Video Cube, the cube puzzle game that General Computer Corporation made for Atari. The game is the same, but it carries the Rubik's Cube name under licence, and the…

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Quest for Quintana Roo

Quest for Quintana Roo is a treasure-hunting adventure for the Atari 2600, developed by VSS and published by Sunrise Software in the early 1980s. You play Yucatan Sam, an explorer searching an ancient temple in Mexico's Quintana Roo…

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Rampage

Rampage for the Atari 2600 is Activision's 1989 home version of Bally Midway's 1986 arcade game, in which giant monsters climb skyscrapers and punch them until they fall down. The 2600 version was programmed by Bob Polaro, and…

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Raumpatrouille

Raumpatrouille ("Space Patrol") is a space shoot-'em-up that the German mail-order company Quelle sold for the Atari 2600 around 1983. Like many cartridges in Quelle's range, it was not a new game but one from another company with…

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Reactor

Reactor is Parker Brothers' Atari 2600 version of Gottlieb's 1982 arcade game, designed by Tim Skelly. The home version was programmed by Charlie Heath. You pilot a small ship inside a nuclear reactor and bump swarms of particles…

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RealSports Baseball

RealSports Baseball is a baseball game that Atari released for the Atari 2600 in October 1982, as part of its RealSports line. It replaced the very simple Home Run with a proper diamond, fly balls, fielders who throw…

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is Atari's 1982 adventure game based on the first Indiana Jones film. It was designed and programmed by Howard Scott Warshaw and released in November 1982. Rather than replaying scenes from the film,…

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