Developer: 20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox, the Hollywood film studio, set up its own video game label, Fox Video Games, in 1982 to turn its films into Atari 2600 cartridges. Fox had no in-house programming team: outside programmers wrote the games under contract, and the label closed in 1983 as the video game market collapsed.
The site has nine games connected with Fox. Doug Neubauer, who had left Atari, wrote three of them: the maze game Alien, the helicopter rescue game M*A*S*H and the scrolling shooter Mega Force. Bill Aspromonte made the getaway-car maze Bank Heist, and John W. S. Marvin designed the dungeon crawl Crypts of Chaos. Two games never came out while Fox was in business: Save the Whales, meant to raise money for Greenpeace, and Mark Klein’s Pick Up, which finally appeared in 2002. The list also includes Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes and Crash Dive.
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Save the Whales

Save the Whales is an unreleased Atari 2600 game programmed by Steve Beck of Beck-Tech for 20th Century Fox around 1983. You steer a submarine and shoot down the nets and harpoons that a whaling ship drops on…

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Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes is an Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox, programmed by John Russell and released in February 1983. It is an odd mix of shooter and building game: you steer a flying Tomato…

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Pick Up

Pick Up is a shooting game programmed by Mark Klein in 1983 for 20th Century Fox's video game label. It was finished but never released at the time, and it first reached players as a limited cartridge sold…

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Mega Force

Mega Force is a 1982 scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, based on the Hal Needham film Megaforce that reached cinemas in June of the same year. It was published by Fox Video Games, the game label of…

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M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H is an Atari 2600 game based on the film and the long-running TV series about a US Army field hospital in the Korean War. It was published by Fox Video Games, the game label of 20th Century…

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Crash Dive

In Atari 2600 Crash Dive, you are tasked with scoring as many points as possible by destroying various enemy targets, including ships, helicopters, planes, giant sharks, stingrays, squids, angler fish, and lobsters. You must accomplish this before running…

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Crypts of Chaos

Crypts of Chaos is a first-person dungeon crawl for the Atari 2600, designed by John W. S. Marvin and published by Fox Video Games, the game division of 20th Century Fox. You explore underground mazes, fight monsters, rob…

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Bank Heist

Bank Heist is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, designed by Bill Aspromonte and published by Fox Video Games, the video game label of 20th Century Fox. You drive a getaway car through a city of…

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Alien

Alien is a 1982 maze game for the Atari 2600, based on Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction film. It was programmed by Doug Neubauer and published by Fox Video Games, the video game arm of 20th Century Fox, in…

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