Archives: Atari 2600 games

Crash Dive

In Atari 2600 Crash Dive, you are tasked with scoring as many points as possible by destroying various enemy targets, including ships, helicopters, planes, giant sharks, stingrays, squids, angler fish, and lobsters. You must accomplish this before running…

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Crazy Climber

Crazy Climber for the Atari 2600 is Atari's home version of the 1980 Nichibutsu arcade game, programmed by Alex Leavens and released in 1983. You scale the outside of four skyscrapers one window ledge at a time, dodging…

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Crypts of Chaos

Crypts of Chaos is a first-person dungeon crawl for the Atari 2600, designed by John W. S. Marvin and published by Fox Video Games, the game division of 20th Century Fox. You explore underground mazes, fight monsters, rob…

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Crystal Castles

Crystal Castles is Atari's 1984 home version of its own 1983 arcade maze game. You guide Bentley Bear through castles drawn at an angle, so the mazes look three-dimensional, and you gather every gem before the monsters get…

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Custer’s Revenge

“Custer’s Revenge” is a controversial adult-themed action game developed by American Multiple Industries and released for the Atari 2600 in November 1982. The game attracted significant criticism for its offensive content, specifically the objective involving an assault on…

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Dancing Plate

Dancing Plate is a plate-spinning game from the Taiwanese company Bit Corporation, dated 1982. Poles stand in a row across the screen, each with a spinning plate on top, and you run back and forth to steady the…

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Dark Chambers

Dark Chambers is a top-down maze shooter published by Atari in 1988 for the Atari 2600, and also released for the Atari 7800. It is a reworked version of Dandy, a 1983 Atari 8-bit computer game that John…

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Deadly Duck

Deadly Duck is a 1982 shooting game designed by Ed Hodapp at Sirius Software and published for the Atari 2600 by 20th Century Fox. You play a duck whose bill doubles as a gun barrel, defending your pond…

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Death Trap

In the game, you play as a messenger tasked with delivering an important message to the Galactic Emperor. However, you encounter a giant ship known as IT, which wants to prevent the message from being delivered. Your mission…

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Defender

Sears title: Defender Licensed by Williams Electronics DEFENDER ORIGINAL ATARI 2600 GAME INSTRUCTIONS  ATARI DEFENDER is very similar to the Williams coin-operated DEFENDER game. However, you will find some differences in the game play as well as in…

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