Off the Wall

Off the Wall is an Atari 2600 game released in 1989, developed by Axlon and published by Atari Corporation. As a Breakout clone, it features an Asian theme and a unique twist on the classic gameplay. Instead of using paddle controllers like Breakout or Super Breakout, Off the Wall is controlled with a joystick. In … Read more

Oscar’s Trash Race

Oscar’s Trash Race is an educational Sesame Street video game developed by the Children’s Computer Workshop and Atari for the Atari 2600 (Atari VCS) in 1983. The game is designed to teach young players basic counting and number recognition skills. In the game, players control Oscar the Grouch as he collects trash from the street. … Read more

Othello

Othello for the Atari 2600 is a video game adaptation of the classic board game, also known as Reversi. Developed and published by Atari, the game offers both single-player and competitive two-player modes, allowing players to challenge the computer or a friend. Set on an 8×8 grid, the objective of the game is to capture … Read more

Outlaw – Gunslinger

Outlaw for the Atari 2600 is a game developed and published by Atari, Inc. that offers both single-player and two-player modes. The game is a port of the arcade version, and while it retains some of its features, it also introduces new gameplay elements and variations. In the two-player Gunslinger mode, players control on-screen cowboys … Read more

Pac-Man

Pac-Man is a maze action game developed and released by Namco for arcades in 1980. The objective of the game is to eat all of the dots placed in the maze while avoiding four colored ghosts — Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (cyan), and Clyde (orange) — that pursue him. When Pac-Man eats all of … Read more

Ms. Pac-Man

Ms. Pac-Man is a 1982 maze arcade video game developed by General Computer Corporation and published by Midway. It is a sequel to the original Pac-Man game and features similar gameplay. The player controls Ms. Pac-Man, a yellow, circular character, as she navigates through a maze eating dots while avoiding ghosts. The goal is to … Read more

Night Driver

Night Driver is one of the earliest first-person racing video games and is commonly believed to be one of the first published video games to display real-time first-person graphics. Night Driver gameplay The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as … Read more

Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol, developed and released by Irem in 1982, is an arcade video game where the player takes on the role of a Luna City police officer assigned to Sector Nine. Players control a Moon buggy that travels over the Moon’s surface, viewed from the side as it moves toward the right. The objective is … Read more

Midnight Magic

Midnight Magic is a pinball video game for the Atari 2600, which, despite licensing its name from Broderbund, features a distinct table design from David’s Midnight Magic. The game uses the CX40 joystick controller for various pinball actions such as activating flippers and shooting the ball. To pull back the pinball machine plunger, players move … Read more