Archives: Atari 5200 games

Mario Bros.

Mario Bros. puts Mario and Luigi in the sewers of New York, bumping turtles, crabs and flies off the pipes from below and kicking them away. Atari published this version of Nintendo's 1983 arcade game for the Atari…

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Astro Grover

Astro Grover is a counting game for young children from the Children's Computer Workshop, starring Sesame Street's Grover as an astronaut. Atari finished this Atari 5200 version in 1983 but never released it; CBS later published it for…

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Kaboom!

Kaboom! is Activision's 1983 Atari 5200 version of Larry Kaplan's 1981 bucket-and-bomb game, converted by Paul Willson. The Mad Bomber drops lit bombs faster and faster and you catch them in a stack of water buckets, and this…

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River Raid

River Raid is Carol Shaw's own 1983 Atari 5200 conversion of her Activision hit, flying a jet up a never-ending river past tankers, helicopters and bridges while the fuel gauge drains. This version adds tanks that fire from…

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Asteroids

Asteroids is Atari's 1979 arcade hit in which you blast drifting rocks into ever smaller pieces. This Atari 5200 version, a port of the Atari 8-bit computer game, was almost ready in 1982 but never went on sale,…

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Star Raiders

Star Raiders is Atari's 1982 Atari 5200 version of Doug Neubauer's 1979 space combat game, the title that sold many people their first Atari computer. You fly a starship through a galaxy map, hyperwarp between sectors and hunt…

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Berzerk

Berzerk is the Atari 5200 version of Stern's 1980 arcade shooter, programmed by General Computer Corporation and released by Atari in 1984. You run through electrified mazes shooting robots while the indestructible Evil Otto bounces after you, and…

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Pole Position

Pole Position is Atari's 1983 Atari 5200 version of Namco's arcade racer, programmed by Mike Horowitz and Betty Ryan Tylko at General Computer Corporation. You drive a qualifying lap to earn a place on the grid, then race…

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A.E.

A.E. is an unreleased Atari 5200 port of Broderbund's 1982 computer shooter, in which you blow up swooping formations of robot stingrays with a missile that you detonate by hand. Atari had a near-final cartridge in January 1984…

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Q*bert

Q*bert is Parker Brothers' 1983 Atari 5200 version of Gottlieb's 1982 arcade hit. You hop a long-nosed orange character around a pyramid of cubes, changing the top of every cube to the target colour while Coily the snake,…

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