Archives: Atari 2600 games

Fire Fighter

Fire Fighter is a 1982 Imagic game for the Atari 2600, created by Brad Stewart, who had earlier programmed Breakout and Asteroids for Atari. A man is trapped in a burning warehouse at midnight, and you have a…

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Star Voyager

Star Voyager is a first-person space combat game for the Atari 2600, designed by Bob Smith and released by Imagic in April 1982. From the bridge of the Astro-Cruiser Star Voyager, you fight your way through seven star…

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Paris Attack

Paris Attack is a European PAL release of M.A.D. ("Missile Attack and Defense"), a 1982 missile-defence shooter from U.S. Games. The cartridge was sold under several names: the German version, Angriff der Luftflotten, translates as "Attack of the…

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Cubicolor

Cubicolor is a sliding-tile puzzle game that Rob Fulop wrote for the Atari 2600 in 1982, while he was a programmer at Imagic. Imagic decided not to publish it, so it never reached the shops; Fulop later sold…

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Pyramid War

Pyramid War is an unlicensed Atari 2600 cartridge from the early 1980s that contains Activision's Chopper Command with new graphics and a new story. It was sold by labels such as Suntek and Rainbow Vision; AtariMania dates both…

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Alligator People

Alligator People is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox's video game division, programmed by John Russell in 1983. It is based on the 1959 horror and science fiction film The Alligator People, in which an…

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Assault

Assault is a fixed-screen space shooter for the Atari 2600, developed and published in 1983 by Bomb, a small company based in Asia. An alien mother ship hovers above you and keeps launching smaller attack craft, and you…

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Gangster Alley

Gangster Alley is a shooting-gallery game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision, the company that soon renamed itself Spectravideo. Five wanted gangsters are hiding in a building, and you move a gunsight over its windows to hit…

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Telepathy

Telepathy is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype programmed by Dan Oliver at Atari in 1983. It was written to show off the MindLink, a headband controller that Atari never released. The cartridge is a string of seven short…

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Sea Hunt

Sea Hunt is an underwater treasure-diving game for the Atari 2600, released in 1987 by Froggo. You dive from your boat, spear the fish that guard the water, and slip into a sunken Spanish galleon to grab three…

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