Archives: Atari 2600 games
Congo Bongo
Congo Bongo is the Atari 2600 version of Sega's 1983 arcade game, in which a safari hunter chases a mischievous gorilla up a mountain and across a jungle river. Sega published the cartridge in 1983, and it was…
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Laser Gates
Laser Gates is a side-scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, designed and programmed by Dan Oliver and published by Imagic in 1983. You pilot a small ship called the Dante Dart through the tunnels of a giant computer…
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Allia Quest
Allia Quest is a homebrew space shooter for the Atari 2600, programmed by Igor Barzilai and published by Ebivision in 2001. It follows the classic fixed-screen shooter formula made popular by games like Activision's Megamania: your ship sits…
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Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own 1982 arcade shooter. The camera sits behind your fighter as it skims low over the surface of Planet Zoom, threading through electron posts, before…
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Q*bert’s Qubes
Q*bert's Qubes is the sequel to Q*bert, based on the 1983 arcade game from Mylstar (the company formerly known as Gottlieb). Parker Brothers published the Atari 2600 version, programmed by Todd Marshall. Instead of changing the colour of…
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Name This Game
Name This Game is an underwater action game for the Atari 2600, created by James Wickstead Design Associates and published by U.S. Games around the start of 1983. You play a diver guarding sunken treasure from a giant…
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Casino – Poker Plus
Casino is an early Atari 2600 card game cartridge programmed by Bob Whitehead and released by Atari in 1979. Sears sold it under the name Poker Plus. It puts three card games on one cartridge: blackjack, five-card stud…
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Super Baumeister
Super Baumeister is the European PAL release of Spectravision's Atari 2600 game Master Builder. "Baumeister" is German for master builder, and the game itself is the same memory-and-construction puzzle: you study a blueprint, then build it brick by…
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Secret Agent
Secret Agent is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from Data Age, the small California publisher behind Journey Escape and Bugs. It was finished in 1983, but the company went bankrupt that year before the cartridge could reach shops.…
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