Archives: Atari 2600 games

Sea Monster

Sea Monster is a simple shooting game from Bit Corporation, a Taiwanese company that sold its Atari 2600 cartridges under its own name and under the Puzzy brand. You command a ship on the surface and drop depth…

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Lost Luggage

Lost Luggage is a 1982 catching game for the Atari 2600 from Games by Apollo, a small studio in Richardson, Texas. An airport baggage carousel goes haywire and starts flinging suitcases into the air, and your skycaps have…

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Spike’s Peak

Spike's Peak is a 1983 mountain-climbing game for the Atari 2600, published by Xonox. You guide a climber named Spike from the meadows at the foot of a mountain to its icy summit, dodging animals, falling rocks and…

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Alpha Beam with Ernie

Alpha Beam with Ernie is a 1983 Sesame Street learning game for children aged 3 to 7, made by Atari together with the Children's Computer Workshop. Michael Callahan programmed it and Preston Stuart did the graphics. Ernie is…

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Cakewalk

Cakewalk is a 1983 action game from CommaVid, programmed by Irwin Gaines, in which a baker races to catch cakes and pies before they fall off six runaway conveyor belts. It is one of the hardest Atari 2600…

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Extra Terrestrials

Extra Terrestrials is a very rare 1984 Atari 2600 game by Herman Quast, published by Skill Screen Games, a small family business in Canada. It is not related to Atari's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: it is a separate, home-made…

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Phaser Patrol (cassette)

Phaser Patrol is a first-person space combat game designed by Dennis Caswell and released in 1982 by Arcadia, the company soon renamed Starpath. It was the first numbered release for the Supercharger, an add-on that plugged into the…

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Open Sesame

In Atari 2600’s Open Sesame, you are transported into a mysterious and exotic world, taking on the role of the courageous adventurer from ancient Arabia, Ali Baba. Your objective is to make your way up to the treasure-laden…

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Save the Whales

Save the Whales is an unreleased Atari 2600 game programmed by Steve Beck of Beck-Tech for 20th Century Fox around 1983. You steer a submarine and shoot down the nets and harpoons that a whaling ship drops on…

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Frostbite

Frostbite: Chilling Adventures on the Atari 2600 In 1983, Activision released Frostbite, an action-packed game for the Atari 2600. This exciting game is centered around a daring protagonist who must survive the freezing cold by building an igloo…

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