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Earth Attack is an unlicensed game for the Atari 2600 that closely resembles the classic arcade game Defender. In Earth Attack, players take control of a spaceship tasked with defending the Earth from waves of invading alien forces. The game features side-scrolling action with the player navigating the spaceship horizontally across the screen, shooting down … Read more
Atari 2600 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial considered the worst video game of all time and cause of “The Video Game Crash of 1983” In the Atari 2600 game the players control the alien E.T. from a top-down perspective. The objective is to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone. The pieces are found scattered randomly throughout … Read more
Based off the 1984 movie, Dune was to be an action/adventure game along the same lines as the classic VCS game Adventure. Dune was originally started by programmers Bruce Poehlman and Gary Stark, but they had only gone through the brainstorming process when work was stopped. It appears that another programmer may have been assigned … Read more
Eggomania is an action-packed video game for the Atari 2600 that challenges players to catch eggs dropped by a chicken perched at the top of the screen. The gameplay is reminiscent of Kaboom! and Avalance, which are both arcade games with similar mechanics. In Eggomania, players control a blue bear at the bottom of the … Read more
This is prototype. It appears to be almost complete, but still needs some work to be a finished Atari 2600 game. An August 1984 internal memo states it was 85% done with 8 more weeks needed, although the onscreen copyright date is 1983.(source: AtariMania.com)
Eli’s Ladder is an educational video game developed for the Atari 2600, designed to help children practice and improve their basic math skills. In the game, players are presented with simple arithmetic questions, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division problems. By answering these questions correctly, the player helps Eli, the game’s main character, climb … Read more
This is prototype. Elk Attack is a port of the obscure Taito arcade game Electric Yo-Yo! (source: AtariMania.com)
Encounter at L-5 is an Atari 2600 game in which the player assumes the role of the last line of defense for a space colony under attack by relentless Megalyte Warriors. The colony, located beyond the moon’s orbit, is defenseless against the onslaught, and the player must protect it using anti-matter ammunition to blast the … Read more
The Entity is an unreleased action game for the Atari 2600, developed by programmer Mark Klein and based on the horror movie of the same name. The game’s objective is to move the Entity to the highest plane of existence before running out of energy. The game features several rows, or planes of existence, similar … Read more
Entombed is an Atari 2600 game developed by Tom Sloper and programmed by Steven Sidley. The game features an intriguing maze-generating algorithm that, even after research in the 2010s, has remained a mystery to experts. According to the original coder, he obtained the algorithm from another programmer who wrote it while intoxicated. In Entombed, players … Read more