Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gremlins

Gremlins is Atari's 1984 Atari 2600 game based on the film of the same year. As Billy, you first try to catch hungry Mogwai before they reach the hamburgers, and when that fails you have to shoot the…

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Great Escape (USA)

Great Escape is a 1983 space shooter for the Atari 2600, sold under the Bomb label, a range of cartridges from the Asian developer Onbase. Your ship sits in the middle of the screen while space scrolls around…

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Great Escape (Europe)

Great Escape is a 1983 space shooter for the Atari 2600 from Bomb, a budget label of the Asian developer Onbase, and this page has the European PAL version. Your ship stays in the centre of the screen…

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