Archives: Atari 2600 games

Parachute

Parachute is a 1983 Atari 2600 game made in Taiwan by Gem International and sold in Europe on the Home Vision label, as a PAL-only cartridge. You guide a parachutist down through a crowded sky and try to…

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Phantom-Panzer

Phantom-Panzer is the German release of Phantom Tank, a tank battle game made by the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation. The mail-order firm Quelle sold it through its catalogue as a PAL cartridge. You defend your base against a…

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Pharaoh’s Curse

Pharaoh's Curse is a little-known Atari 2600 cartridge from TechnoVision, a small label that released a handful of games in Europe in late 1983. It was a PAL release and never came out in North America. It is…

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Philly Flasher

Philly Flasher is an adult-themed game for the Atari 2600. The gameplay is similar to Beat ‘Em & Eat ‘Em, as players control two men and move them back and forth to catch breast milk from a witch…

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Phoenix

Phoenix is Atari's 2600 version of the 1980 arcade shooter, made under licence from Amstar Electronics and programmed by Mike Feinstein and John Mracek of General Computer Corporation. It came out in early 1983 and, like the arcade…

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Pick ‘n Pile

Pick ‘n Pile is a Tetris-style puzzle game released for various platforms, including the Atari 2600. The objective of the game is to clear the playfield by matching and removing identical symbols. While the game shares some similarities…

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Pick Up

Pick Up is a shooting game programmed by Mark Klein in 1983 for 20th Century Fox's video game label. It was finished but never released at the time, and it first reached players as a limited cartridge sold…

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Picnic

Picnic is a 1983 paddle game for the Atari 2600, published by U.S. Games and developed by Western Technologies, with Tom Sloper credited as designer. You are about to eat your cheeseburgers when a swarm of bugs arrives…

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Pigs in Space

Pigs in Space is a 1983 Atari 2600 cartridge based on the "Pigs in Space" sketches from The Muppet Show. Instead of one game it holds three short space games, each starring a different member of the starship…

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Piece o’ Cake

Piece o' Cake is a 1983 paddle game developed by Western Technologies and published by U.S. Games. You are a bakery chef who takes cake layers from the oven, drops them onto platters rolling along a conveyor belt…

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