Archives: Atari 2600 games

Oscar’s Trash Race

Oscar's Trash Race is a 1983 Sesame Street game for young children, made by Atari with the Children's Computer Workshop. Oscar the Grouch and his little grouches race to pick up trash dropped at the dump, and the…

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Outlaw – Gunslinger

Outlaw is a 1978 Atari 2600 western shootout designed by David Crane at Atari. Sears sold the same game under its Tele-Games label as Gunslinger. Two cowboys face each other across the screen with a cactus, a wall…

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Pac-Man

Pac-Man is Atari's 1982 home version of Namco's 1980 arcade maze game, designed and programmed for the Atari 2600 by Tod Frye. It is far from a faithful copy of the arcade game and was heavily criticised, yet…

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Pac Kong

Pac Kong is a European PAL cartridge from 1983, released by Goliath and Hot Shot with the catalogue number 83-414. Despite the name, it is neither Pac-Man nor Donkey Kong. The game on the cartridge is the one…

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Oystron

Oystron is a fast space shooter for the Atari 2600, written by Italian programmer Piero Cavina and first released in 1997. It was his first game and one of the earliest hobbyist-made games for the console, from the…

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Out of Control

Out of Control is a 1983 space race against the clock for the Atari 2600. It was designed by Jim Jacob and published by The Avalon Hill Video Game Company, the video game arm of the board game…

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Othello

Othello is Atari's cartridge version of the board game Othello, a form of Reversi. It was programmed by Ed Logg, with graphics by Carol Shaw, and released for the Atari 2600 in 1981. You can play against the…

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Omega Race

Omega Race is the Atari 2600 version of Midway's 1981 vector-graphics arcade game, in which you fly a fighter around a rectangular arena and shoot down waves of enemy ships. CBS Electronics released it in 1983, and the…

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Nightmare

Nightmare is a single-screen climbing game released in 1983 by Sancho (Tang's Electronic Co.), a small third-party publisher. A sleeping child is stuck in a bad dream and has to reach a rescue helicopter by climbing magic ropes,…

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Night Stalker

Night Stalker on the Atari 2600 is a later reissue of Dark Cavern, the maze shooter Mattel Electronics released under its M Network label in 1982. Telegames brought it back for the PAL market in the late 1980s…

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