Pitfall II: Lost Caverns is the Atari 5200 version of David Crane's 1984 Activision adventure, programmed by Mike Lorenzen. Pitfall Harry explores an underground cave system to find his niece Rhonda, his cat Quickclaw and the Raj diamond,…
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H.E.R.O. is Activision's 1984 rescue game, designed by John Van Ryzin, in which Roderick Hero flies a helicopter backpack down into mineshafts to reach trapped miners before his power runs out. The Atari 5200 version, released that August,…
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Battlezone is Atari's 1980 arcade tank game, seen from inside the tank and drawn in vector lines. This Atari 5200 conversion was scheduled for November 1983 but never came out; the only known prototype is dated September 1983…
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Popeye is Parker Brothers' 1983 Atari 5200 version of Nintendo's 1982 arcade game, designed by Genyo Takeda and Shigeru Miyamoto. You climb around a four-storey house catching the hearts and love notes Olive Oyl drops, while Brutus chases…
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Zaxxon is Sega's own Atari 5200 version of its 1982 isometric arcade shooter, programmed by Ron J. Fortier and released in August 1984. You fly a fighter through two fortresses and the space between them, watching your altitude…
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Kangaroo is Atari's 1983 Atari 5200 version of Sun Electronics' 1982 arcade game, programmed at General Computer Corporation. You guide a boxing-glove-wearing mother kangaroo up ladders and along branches to rescue her baby from apple-throwing monkeys, through all…
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Barroom Baseball is an unreleased 1983 variant of Atari's RealSports Baseball for the Atari 5200, prepared by Atari's coin-op division for a coin-operated 5200 unit meant to sit on a bar counter. The project was dropped before it…
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Jungle Hunt is Atari's 1983 Atari 5200 version of Taito's 1982 arcade game. You swing across ropes, swim a river full of crocodiles, dodge rolling boulders and leap over cannibals to rescue a kidnapped friend before she ends…
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Robotron: 2084 is Atari's 1984 Atari 5200 version of the 1982 Williams arcade game by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar. You are the last defender of the last human family, shooting waves of robots in every direction while…
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Moon Patrol is Atari's 1983 Atari 5200 conversion of Irem's 1982 arcade game, programmed by Scott Smith. You drive a police buggy across the moon, jumping craters and rocks and shooting UFOs, on a 26-section beat that keeps…
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