Archives: Atari 2600 games

Crack’ed

Crack'ed is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from 1988, a crosshair shooting game about protecting birds' eggs. It was programmed by Randy Bowker and Bruce Williams of Zip Chip, Inc. for Atari, as a cut-down version of the…

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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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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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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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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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Dark Cavern

Dark Cavern is a 1982 maze shooter released by Mattel Electronics under its M Network label for the Atari 2600. It is the 2600 adaptation of Mattel's Intellivision game Night Stalker: you roam the tunnels of an underground…

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Combat Two

Combat Two is the unreleased sequel to Combat, the tank duel that came packed with the Atari 2600 for years. According to AtariProtos, it was programmed in 1982 by Alan Hodgkinson and Tom Calderwood at General Computer Corporation…

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Combat – Tank Plus

Combat is one of the nine cartridges that launched the Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) in 1977. It came in the box with most Atari consoles until 1982, and Sears sold it under the name…

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Color Bar Generator

Color Bar Generator is not a game. It is a test cartridge that turns the Atari 2600 into a simple pattern generator for checking and adjusting a television set. It was made by Videosoft, the small company of…

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Codebreaker

Codebreaker is a 1978 Atari cartridge with two logic games: a number-guessing game in the style of the board game Mastermind, and the ancient strategy game Nim. Released in October 1978 alongside Brain Games and Hunt & Score,…

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