Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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Chase the Chuck Wagon

Chase the Chuck Wagon is a 1983 promotional maze game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision for the pet food company Ralston Purina to advertise its Chuck Wagon dog food. You guide Chuckie the dog through mazes…

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Taz

Taz is a 1983 Atari 2600 game starring the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. It was programmed by Steve Woita and published by Atari. Taz spins across the screen as a small tornado and tries to…

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