Archives: Atari 2600 games

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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Dig Dug

Licensed by Namco DIG DUG original Atari 2600 manual DIG DUG GAME OBJECTIVE You are Dig Dug, the underground miner. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, subterranean mazes. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must…

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Dishaster

Dishaster is a 1983 Atari 2600 game released in North America by Zimag. It is the NTSC edition of Dancing Plate, a PAL game from the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation, renamed for the American market. The idea comes…

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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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Dragon Defender

Dragon Defender is a horizontal shoot 'em up for the Atari 2600 from the unlicensed Taiwanese cartridge scene of the early 1980s. It was sold in Europe and Australia by several labels, including Ariola, Suntek and Rainbow Vision,…

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