Archives: Atari 2600 games

Racquetball

Racquetball is a 1982 sports game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Ed Salvo and published by Games by Apollo, a small company from Texas. Two players share an indoor court and try to keep a fast ball…

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Radar

Radar is an unlicensed Atari 2600 cartridge sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain. It is a renamed copy of the Taiwanese company Sancho's shooter, better known on the site as Exocet and also sold as…

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Radar Lock

Radar Lock is a 1989 air combat game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Doug Neubauer and published by Atari Corp. late in the console's life. You fly a delta-wing fighter through five missions of dogfights against enemy…

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Raft Rider

Raft Rider is a one-player white-water game for the Atari 2600, published by U.S. Games and developed by Western Technologies. You steer a log raft down a fast river, dodging rocks, moose and falling trees, and you try…

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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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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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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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RealSports Boxing

RealSports Boxing is a side-view boxing game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Alex DeMeo and released by Atari Corporation in 1987. You pick one of four boxers, each with his own weak spot, and fight up to…

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