Archives: Atari 2600 games

Mario Bros.

Mario Bros. is Atari's 1983 Atari 2600 version of Nintendo's arcade game from the same year. Mario and his brother Luigi clear pests out of a set of water pipes by knocking them over from below and kicking…

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Kung-Fu Master

Kung-Fu Master is Activision's 1987 Atari 2600 version of Irem's 1984 arcade game, released under licence from Data East USA and programmed by Dan Kitchen. You fight your way through five levels of a temple, kicking and punching…

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Kyphus

Kyphus is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from Apollo, programmed by Tim Martin around 1982. It was never sold, and the only known copy of the prototype surfaced in 2006. What survives is an early work in progress:…

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Lady Bug

Lady Bug is a 2006 homebrew conversion of Universal's 1981 arcade maze game, written from scratch for the Atari 2600 by John W. Champeau of Champ Games and sold through the AtariAge Store. You guide a ladybird through…

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Lady Bug

Lady Bug is a 2006 homebrew version of Universal's 1981 arcade maze game, written for the Atari 2600 by John W. Champeau of Champ Games. You steer a ladybird around a garden maze, eating flowers, hearts and letters…

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Laser Blast

Laser Blast is a 1981 Activision shooter designed by David Crane, one of the company's founders. You fly a saucer over a planet's surface and trade laser fire with three enemy ground bases at a time. It is…

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Laser Volley

Laser Volley is an unlicensed copy of Imagic's 1983 shooter Laser Gates, sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain. The game itself is Dan Oliver's work: you fly the Dante Dart through the tunnels of a…

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Lilly Adventure (USA)

Lilly Adventure is a little-known platform game for the Atari 2600 from the early 1980s. This page has the NTSC version of the cartridge, the one that runs at the 60 Hz picture rate used in North America.…

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Lochjaw

Lochjaw is a 1982 maze game from Games by Apollo, designed and programmed by Steve Stringfellow. As a deep-sea diver you collect diamonds from a sunken galleon while sharks sweep across the screen and the Loch Ness Monster…

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