Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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Dolphin

Dolphin is a 1983 Activision game designed by Matthew Hubbard. You guide a dolphin through the open sea while a giant squid chases her, and the most unusual thing about it is that you have to play partly…

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Donald Duck’s Speedboat

Donald Duck's Speedboat is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 1983, programmed by Suki Lee with graphics by Dave Joly. You steer Donald's speedboat through a watery obstacle course as fast as you can. It was cancelled very…

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Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 is Coleco's 1982 conversion of Nintendo's 1981 arcade game, designed and programmed by Garry Kitchen. As Mario, you climb sloping girders and dodge barrels to rescue a girl kidnapped by the giant…

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Donkey Kong Junior

Donkey Kong Junior is Coleco's 1983 Atari 2600 version of Nintendo's 1982 arcade sequel to Donkey Kong. This time the roles are reversed: Mario has locked Donkey Kong in a cage, and you play his son, who climbs…

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Double Dragon

Double Dragon for the Atari 2600 is Activision's 1989 home version of Technos Japan's 1987 arcade beat 'em up. It was programmed by Dan Kitchen and came out late in the console's life, alongside a separate Atari 7800…

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Double Dunk

Double Dunk is a two-on-two, half-court basketball game released by Atari Corporation in 1989, one of the last new cartridges Atari made for the 2600. It was programmed by Matthew Hubbard, who had earlier written Dolphin for Activision.…

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