Archives: Atari 2600 games

Earth Attack

Earth Attack is an unlicensed copy of Atari's 1982 Atari 2600 version of Defender, the side-scrolling shooter converted from the Williams arcade game by Bob Polaro. It was sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain under…

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Earth Dies Screaming

The Earth Dies Screaming is a first-person space shooter for the Atari 2600, designed by Dan Thompson at Sirius Software and published by Fox Video Games, the game label of 20th Century Fox. It borrows its name from…

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Entombed

Entombed is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, developed by Western Technologies and published by U.S. Games. Tom Sloper designed it and Steve Sidley programmed it. You are an archaeologist trapped in catacombs full of zombies,…

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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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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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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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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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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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Eggomania

Eggomania is a paddle game from U.S. Games, developed by James Wickstead Design Associates and released in North America in January 1983. A bird struts along the top of the screen dropping eggs, and your blue bear has…

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Eddy Langfinger, der Museumsdieb

Eddy Langfinger, der Museumsdieb ("Eddy Lightfingers, the museum thief") is the German PAL release of the Atari 2600 game A Mysterious Thief, sold by the mail-order company Quelle. You play a burglar raiding a four-storey building against the…

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