Archives: Atari 2600 games

Basic Math (NTSC version)

This page runs the NTSC (North American) version of Basic Math, Atari's 1977 arithmetic cartridge programmed by Gary Palmer and one of the first games for the Atari 2600. It is the same program that Sears sold as…

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Bell Hopper

Bell Hopper is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Tomas "Tjoppen" Härdin, released at the Assembly Summer 2011 demoparty, where it placed fifth in the game development competition. It is a "demake" of Ferry Halim's Flash game Winterbells:…

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Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda Triangle is an underwater action game from Data Age, programmed by J. Ray Dettling and released in early 1983 (the manual is dated 1982). You steer a mini-sub down to a strange city on the ocean floor,…

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Bermuda

Bermuda is an unofficial release of Activision's River Raid under a different name. It was sold by Suntek under the Rainbow Vision label (model SS-009) in PAL countries, and a version with a Taiwanese "Cooper" label is also…

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Big Bird’s Egg Catch

Big Bird's Egg Catch is a 1983 Sesame Street game for young children, made by Atari with the Children's Computer Workshop and programmed by Christopher Omarzu. Big Bird wants to win the egg contest at the county fair,…

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Bionic Breakthrough

Bionic Breakthrough is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype programmed by Paul Donaldson at Atari in 1984. It is a reworked version of Super Breakout, made to show off the MindLink, a headband controller that Atari never brought to…

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Birthday Mania

Birthday Mania is a very rare Atari 2600 cartridge from 1984, published by the Personal Games Company. It was made as a birthday present: the orange label, decorated with balloons, reads "Happy Birthday to" above a blank box…

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Blackjack

Blackjack is one of the first Atari 2600 cartridges. Bob Whitehead designed it for Atari, and it was one of the games on sale when the console launched in September 1977. You play against a computer dealer, using…

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Barnstorming

Barnstorming is a 1982 Activision race against the clock, designed by Steve Cartwright. You fly a biplane low over the countryside and try to thread it through a set number of open barns as fast as you can,…

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Bank Heist

Bank Heist is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, designed by Bill Aspromonte and published by Fox Video Games, the video game label of 20th Century Fox. You drive a getaway car through a city of…

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