Golf, a 1980 video game released by Atari for the Atari VCS (Atari 2600), features a light green area representing the hole and medium blue areas for everything outside the hole. Larger holes display a dark green circle with the hole close to the center. Obstacles such as trees, sand traps, and water features may … Read more
Gravitar is a color vector graphics arcade game released by Atari in 1982. It has the same game mechanic as Asteroids and Space Duel but the game difficulty is much higher. Atari 2600 version was released in 1983. Gravitar gameplay The player controls a small blue spacecraft. The game starts in a fictional solar system … Read more
Unreleased prototype game included in Atari Flashback 2
Licensed by Namco Galaxian Game Instruction Manual GALAXIAN: NOTES FROM THE COMMANDER Welcome aboard the missile laser base. I’m Commander Champion, your training instructor. These laser bases are used to protect our Universe from alien attack. Each laser base carries missiles which you’ll launch from your control panel. In your first training mission, you’ll be … Read more
PAL-only release; developed by Sculptured Software. You can read more about this game in the US version of Fatal Run.
Unreleased prototype game
Atari 2600 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial considered the worst video game of all time and cause of “The Video Game Crash of 1983” In the Atari 2600 game the players control the alien E.T. from a top-down perspective. The objective is to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone. The pieces are found scattered randomly throughout … Read more
Defender II (originally known as Stargate) is a side-scrolling shooter game and a sequel to the popular Defender, released for arcades in 1981 by Williams Electronics. The Atari 2600 port was initially sold under the name Stargate but was later renamed to Defender II for legal reasons. In Defender II, the gameplay is similar to … Read more
Demons to Diamonds is a fixed shooter game for the Atari 2600 that can be played in both single-player and multiplayer modes. In the game, players control a laser base at the bottom of a multi-row playfield. They use a paddle controller to move the base from side to side and the action button to … Read more
Desert Falcon, developed by General Computer Corporation for the Atari 7800 and Atari 2600, is a scrolling shooter published by Atari Corporation in 1987. In this arcade-style game, players aim to steal the lost treasures of the Pharaoh scattered throughout the desert to accumulate points. The game showcases a scrolling, isometric viewpoint as players control … Read more