Archives: Atari 2600 games

Ghost Manor

Ghost Manor is a 1983 Atari 2600 adventure published by Xonox and developed by Beck-Tech. A friend has been locked up by Dracula in a castle, and you have until sunrise to get in, set them free and…

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters for the Atari 2600 is Activision's 1985 cartridge version of the game based on the 1984 film. David Crane designed the original for the Commodore 64, and Dan Kitchen converted it to the 2600, keeping most of…

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Glacier Patrol

Glacier Patrol is a shooting game for the Atari 2600 set at the North Pole. Sunrise Software developed it but never released it, and Telegames finally put it out in 1988. Alien ice blocks float down on parachutes,…

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Glib

Glib, subtitled Video Word Game, is a 1983 word-building game published by Selchow & Righter, the company behind the Scrabble board game, and developed by Qualtronic Devices (QDI). You pick up lettered tiles with a joystick-controlled cursor and…

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Go Go Home Monster

Go Go Home Monster is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, sold in Europe under the Home Vision label. The game was developed by Gem International Corporation, and the same cartridge also appeared as Alien's Return,…

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Golf

Golf is a nine-hole golf game for one or two players, released by Atari for the Atari 2600 in 1980. It was the first game Michael Lorenzen made at Atari, and he had to squeeze it into a…

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Gopher

Gopher is a farmyard action game for the Atari 2600, developed by James Wickstead Design Associates and published by U.S. Games in January 1983. Sylvia Day designed and programmed it. You play a farmer with a shovel, defending…

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Gorf

Gorf is the Atari 2600 version of Midway's 1981 arcade shooter, published by CBS Video Games in December 1982. The port was made by Roklan and programmed by Alex Leavens. Instead of one kind of alien attack, Gorf…

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Grand Prix

Grand Prix is a 1982 racing game for the Atari 2600, designed and programmed by David Crane and published by Activision. You drive a Formula One car along a track seen from above, weaving through slower traffic and…

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Gravitar

Gravitar is the 1983 Atari 2600 version of Atari's 1982 vector arcade game, programmed for the console by Dan Hitchens. You pilot a small ship through solar systems full of hostile planets, fighting gravity and a shrinking fuel…

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