Archives: Atari 2600 games
Astroblast
Astroblast is Mattel's 1982 Atari 2600 version of Astrosmash, one of the best-selling Intellivision games, released under Mattel's M Network label. You move a laser base along the ground and shoot rocks, bombs and guided missiles falling from…
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Private Eye
Private Eye is a detective game for the Atari 2600, designed by Activision co-founder Bob Whitehead and released by Activision in early 1984. You play the French detective Pierre Touché, driving a jumping Model A car around a…
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Robin Hood
Robin Hood is an Atari 2600 action game published by Xonox, the video game label of the record company K-tel, and developed by Computer Magic. You fight your way through Sherwood Forest and into the Sheriff of Nottingham's…
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Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is a 1983 Atari 2600 shooter based on the comic-strip space hero. David Lubar designed it at Sirius Software, and Fox Video Games, the game division of 20th Century Fox, published it. You fly a rocket…
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Tooth Protectors
Tooth Protectors is a 1983 Atari 2600 game made by DSD/Camelot for Johnson & Johnson, which offered it only by mail order in exchange for proof-of-purchase stamps. It is one of the earliest advertising games: you guard a…
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Mouse Trap
Mouse Trap is Coleco's 1982 Atari 2600 version of Exidy's 1981 arcade maze game. It was developed by Wickstead Design, with programming by Sylvia Day and Henry Will IV. You are a mouse eating cheese in a maze,…
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Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator AKA Dan Kitchen’s Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator
Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator is a late Atari 2600 flight game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Absolute Entertainment. You fly an F-14 from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise: launch from the catapult, hunt enemy fighters…
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Final Approach
Final Approach is an air traffic control game released in 1982 by Games by Apollo, a small Texas company that made games for the Atari 2600. You work at a busy airport, steering up to four planes around…
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