Archives: Atari 2600 games

Haunted House

Haunted House is a 1982 adventure game from Atari, programmed by James Andreasen. You are just a pair of eyes in a pitch-black mansion, lighting matches to find the three pieces of a magic urn while a bat,…

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Hell Driver

Hell Driver is a little-known Atari 2600 racing cartridge sold in Germany by ITT Family Games. It is not an original game: it is the same cartridge that the Belgian label Home Vision sold as Racing Car, and…

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Hole Hunter

Hole Hunter is a hammer-and-holes action game for the Atari 2600, made in Taiwan in the early 1980s. It is the same game as Topy, which Home Vision and Gem sold in Europe, and it also turned up…

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Holey Moley

Holey Moley is an unreleased Atari 2600 game by Atari, programmed by Bob Polaro in 1983. It is a home version of whack-a-mole: moles pop up out of holes and you hit them with a hammer before they…

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Home Run

Home Run is a baseball game that Atari released for the 2600 in October 1978. It was programmed by Bob Whitehead, who later co-founded Activision, together with David Rolfe, and it was the first baseball game on any…

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Human Cannonball

Human Cannonball is one of the earliest Atari 2600 cartridges, released by Atari in 1979 (Sears sold it as Cannon Man). Your job is simple to explain and tricky to master: set the angle and speed of a…

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Hunchy II

Hunchy II is a homebrew platform game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Chris Walton and released on cartridge in 2005 through the AtariAge store. You guide Quasimodo through the rooms of Notre Dame cathedral to rescue Esmeralda.…

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Hunt & Score – Memory Match

Hunt & Score is Atari's 1978 memory game for the Atari 2600, the video game version of the card game where you turn over two cards at a time and try to find matching pairs. It was also…

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I Want My Mommy

I Want My Mommy is a gentle climbing game for young children, published by ZiMAG for the Atari 2600 in North America in 1983. Teddy, a little bear, has had a bad dream. You help him climb a…

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Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey is a 1981 sports game for the Atari 2600, designed by Activision co-founder Alan Miller. Each team has just two players, a goalie and a forward, and a match lasts one fast three-minute period. It is…

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