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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Robot Tank

Robot Tank is a first-person tank battle for the Atari 2600, designed by Alan Miller and released by Activision in 1983. You look out through the viewscreen of a remote-controlled tank, hunt enemy robot tanks with your radar,…

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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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Quick Step

Quick Step! is a 1983 action game from Imagic, designed by David Johnson. A kangaroo and a squirrel bounce across a field of trampolines that keeps scrolling down the screen, each trying to paint as many of them…

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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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RealSports Basketball

RealSports Basketball is a two-on-two basketball game that Atari planned for the Atari 2600 in 1983 as part of its RealSports line, but never released. The programming was done under contract by Roklan, with Joe Gaucher as programmer,…

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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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