Developer: Atari

Atari made the Atari 2600 itself, first sold as the Atari Video Computer System in September 1977, and it was also the console’s biggest publisher. The very first cartridges were Atari’s own, and many were sold by Sears under different names in its Tele-Games line. In 1980 it brought out Taito’s Space Invaders, the first arcade game officially licensed for a home console, and many more arcade conversions followed.
The site lists 135 games under Atari, from 1977 launch titles to cartridges released in the late 1980s, after Jack Tramiel’s Atari Corporation took over the business and revived the 2600. Here are a few to begin with:

Space Invaders (1980): Rick Maurer’s version of the arcade game, with many variations.
Missile Command (1981): Rob Fulop’s conversion of Atari’s own arcade game about defending six cities.
Pac-Man (1982): Tod Frye’s much-criticised version, which still became the console’s best-selling cartridge.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1982): Howard Scott Warshaw’s puzzle adventure based on the first Indiana Jones film.
Video Chess (1979): a full chess opponent squeezed into a machine with 128 bytes of memory.
Solaris (1986): Doug Neubauer’s space combat game from the Atari Corporation years.

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Phoenix

Phoenix is Atari's 2600 version of the 1980 arcade shooter, made under licence from Amstar Electronics and programmed by Mike Feinstein and John Mracek of General Computer Corporation. It came out in early 1983 and, like the arcade…

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Pigs in Space

Pigs in Space is a 1983 Atari 2600 cartridge based on the "Pigs in Space" sketches from The Muppet Show. Instead of one game it holds three short space games, each starring a different member of the starship…

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Obelix

Obelix is a 1983 Atari 2600 game starring the Gaulish heroes of René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo's comics. Despite the title you play both friends at once: you steer little Asterix, who stuns Roman soldiers, and press the…

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Off the Wall

Off the Wall is a Breakout-style game for the Atari 2600, developed by Axlon and published by Atari Corporation in 1989, near the very end of the console's life. You play Kung Fu Lu, who deflects the balls…

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Oscar’s Trash Race

Oscar's Trash Race is a 1983 Sesame Street game for young children, made by Atari with the Children's Computer Workshop. Oscar the Grouch and his little grouches race to pick up trash dropped at the dump, and the…

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Othello

Othello is Atari's cartridge version of the board game Othello, a form of Reversi. It was programmed by Ed Logg, with graphics by Carol Shaw, and released for the Atari 2600 in 1981. You can play against the…

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Outlaw – Gunslinger

Outlaw is a 1978 Atari 2600 western shootout designed by David Crane at Atari. Sears sold the same game under its Tele-Games label as Gunslinger. Two cowboys face each other across the screen with a cactus, a wall…

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Pac-Man

Pac-Man is Atari's 1982 home version of Namco's 1980 arcade maze game, designed and programmed for the Atari 2600 by Tod Frye. It is far from a faithful copy of the arcade game and was heavily criticised, yet…

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Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol is the Atari 2600 version of Irem's 1982 arcade game, published by Atari in 1983. You drive a moon buggy across the lunar surface, jumping craters and mines while shooting at UFOs overhead. The 2600 port…

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MotoRodeo

MotoRodeo is a monster-truck stunt race for the Atari 2600, released by Atari Corporation in 1990, very late in the console's life. It was developed by Axlon and programmed by Steve DeFrisco. Instead of simply racing to the…

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