Archives: Atari 2600 games

Pompeii

Pompeii is an unfinished Atari 2600 game from Apollo, announced in 1983 as one of the company's last titles. It was never released: Apollo went out of business in the video game crash before the game was done.…

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Fatal Run (USA)

Fatal Run is a post-apocalyptic driving and shooting game made by Sculptured Software, programmed by Steve Aguirre and published by Atari. It was only ever sold in Europe, as a PAL cartridge in 1990, and it was one…

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Riddle of the Sphinx

Riddle of the Sphinx is an action-adventure game designed by Bob Smith and released by Imagic in August 1982. As a young prince of Egypt, you travel through a desert kingdom cursed by Anubis, fight off thieves and…

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Artillery Duel

Artillery Duel is an artillery game developed by Perkins Engineering and released for the Bally Astrocade in 1982. The gameplay involves two cannons positioned on opposite sides of a hill or mountain with varying heights and shapes. Players…

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Sea Hawk

Sea Hawk is a one-player air-and-sea shooter for the Atari 2600. You fly a fighter plane over the ocean, shooting down enemy helicopters and sinking enemy ships while protecting your own aircraft carriers. The same game was sold…

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Ram It

Ram It is a fast shooting game for the Atari 2600 from Telesys, programmed by Jim Rupp. Your "Ramroid" rides a track in the middle of the screen while bars of colour grow in from both sides, and…

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Ski Run

Ski Run is an obscure winter sports cartridge for the Atari 2600 from the early 1980s. The version on this page is the PAL cartridge that Suntek sold in Europe, model SS-024, which emulator databases date to 1983.…

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Berzerk

Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter video game that was initially released for arcades in 1980 and later for the Atari 2600 in 1982. The game was developed by Stern Electronics and designed by Alan McNeil. Berzerk places the…

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Football

Football is Atari's early American football cartridge for the 2600, programmed by Bob Whitehead and sold by Sears as part of its Tele-Games line. It is a two-player game only: one person plays offence, the other defence, and…

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RealSports Tennis

RealSports Tennis is a singles tennis game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1983, as part of its RealSports line of sports cartridges. It was developed for Atari by General Computer Corporation (GCC), with Alan Hodgkinson as…

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