Archives: Atari 2600 games

Fighter Pilot

Fighter Pilot is the PAL release of Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator, a late Atari 2600 flight game designed by Dan Kitchen. In the USA it was published by Absolute Entertainment; outside the USA it was renamed Fighter…

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Fathom

Fathom is an action-adventure game designed by Rob Fulop and published by Imagic in 1983, with graphics by Michael Becker and Wilfredo Aguilar. You play Proteus, who can change between a dolphin and a seagull, and you search…

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Fatal Run (Europe)

Fatal Run is a post-apocalyptic driving and shooting game made by Sculptured Software, programmed by Steve Aguirre and published by Atari. This page runs the European PAL cartridge from 1990, the only version that was ever sold in…

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Fast Food

Fast Food is a 1982 Atari 2600 game by the small publisher Telesys, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. You steer a giant pair of chattering lips around the screen and gobble up burgers, fries, pizza and drinks as they…

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Elevator Action

Elevator Action for the Atari 2600 is an unreleased prototype. Dan Hitchens programmed it at Atari as a home version of Taito's 1983 arcade spy game, but the cartridge was never finished or sold. The surviving version is…

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Eli’s Ladder

Eli's Ladder is an educational Atari 2600 cartridge from Simage, a small company in Novato, California. It is a set of counting, addition and subtraction drills for young children, built around Eli, a friendly alien who climbs a…

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Elk Attack

Elk Attack is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from 1987, programmed by Mark R. Hahn for Atari. Despite the name, there are no elk in it. It is a home version of Electric Yo-Yo, a little-known Taito arcade…

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Encounter at L-5

Encounter at L-5 is a paddle-controlled space shooter from Data Age, released in 1982 as one of the company's first five Atari 2600 cartridges. A space colony beyond the Moon's orbit is under attack by the Megalytes, and…

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Enduro

Enduro is a 1983 racing game by Activision, designed by Larry Miller. You drive in the "National Enduro", a long-distance race where you have to overtake a set number of cars every day to stay in the competition.…

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The Entity

The Entity is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox, programmed by Mark Klein and based on the horror film of the same name. Instead of fighting the film's invisible force, you push it: by sliding…

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