Archives: Atari 2600 games

Miniature Golf

Miniature Golf is one of Atari's early cartridges for the Video Computer System, programmed by Tom Reuterdahl and released in 1979. It offers nine holes of top-down mini golf with walls to bank shots off and obstacles that…

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World End

World End is a 1983 shoot 'em up sold in Europe on the Home Vision label, whose cartridges were made by Gem International. A huge alien mothership hangs at the top of the screen, smaller craft break away…

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Master Builder

Master Builder is a memory and construction game for the Atari 2600, released by Spectravideo in 1983. Each level shows you the blueprint of a building for just five seconds. Then you have to build it brick by…

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Strategy X

Strategy X is Konami's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own 1981 arcade tank game. You drive a tank through enemy territory, shooting your way towards the enemy base while keeping an eye on your fuel. The cartridge…

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Flag Capture

Flag Capture is a 1978 Atari 2600 guessing game designed by Jim Huether and published by Atari (Sears sold it as Capture). A flag is hidden under one square of a grid, and you move an explorer around…

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Star Wars: Jedi Arena

Star Wars: Jedi Arena is a 1983 paddle game from Parker Brothers, programmed by Rex Bradford. Two Jedi Knights face each other across a training arena while a floating Seeker ball fires laser bolts, and you use your…

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Exocet

Exocet is a shooting game for the Atari 2600 released in North America by Panda. You fly a UFO over a landscape of cannon towers, blasting them from above ground and then diving into underground tunnels. The same…

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Ghostbusters II

Ghostbusters II is a late Atari 2600 action game based on the 1989 film. Activision developed it, with programming credited to Michael Buetepage, but the cartridge was never sold in the United States. It came out only in…

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Mr. Do’s Castle

Mr. Do!'s Castle is Parker Brothers' Atari 2600 version of Universal's 1983 arcade game, released on the console in 1984. The clown from Mr. Do! swaps his orchard for a castle full of ladders and stone floors, and…

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Front Line

Front Line is the 1984 Atari 2600 version of Taito's 1982 arcade game, published by Coleco and developed by Individeo, with programming credited to Ed Temple. You lead a lone soldier up a battlefield seen from above, fighting…

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