Archives: Atari 2600 games

Boxing

Boxing is a 1980 sports game by Activision, designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead. It was one of the four cartridges Activision launched with that summer, the first games ever sold for the Atari 2600 by a company…

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Bumper Bash

Bumper Bash is a pinball game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision, the games label of Spectravideo, in 1983 and programmed by David Lubar. It fits a whole table on one screen: bumpers, drop targets, a spinner…

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Bump ‘n’ Jump

Bump 'n' Jump is the Atari 2600 version of Data East's 1982 arcade driving game, released in 1983 by Mattel Electronics under its M Network label. You drive up a winding road, knocking other cars off the track…

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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 1983, designed and programmed by Bob Polaro with graphics by Alan Murphy. Atari tested it and then shelved it, so it never reached the shops, but prototype copies have…

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Bugs

Bugs is a 1982 paddle-controlled shooting game from Data Age, a short-lived Californian publisher of Atari 2600 cartridges. You have landed on a dead planet ruled by intelligent "Super-Bugs", and you have to blast them as they crawl…

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Breakout

Breakout is the Atari 2600 version of Atari's 1976 arcade classic: one paddle, one ball and a wall of coloured bricks. It came out for the console in November 1978, was programmed by Brad Stewart, and became one…

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Beamrider

Beamrider is a space shooter published by Activision. Dave Rolfe designed it for the Intellivision in 1983, and the Atari 2600 version followed in 1984. Your ship slides between beams of light that stretch towards the horizon, and…

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Battlezone

Battlezone is the Atari 2600 version of Atari's 1980 arcade tank game, released by Atari in August 1983. You roll across a battlefield hunting enemy tanks, supertanks, fighters and flying saucers, using a radar screen to find targets…

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BASIC Programming

BASIC Programming is not a game but a small programming language on a cartridge. Warren Robinett wrote it for Atari at the same time as he was finishing Adventure, and Atari released it for the 2600 in 1980.…

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