Shuttle Orbiter
Shuttle Orbiter is a space shuttle simulation for the Atari 2600 from Avalon Hill, the company best known for strategy board games. It was designed by Bill Hood, with graphics by Jean Baer. You pilot the shuttle Challenger…
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Avalon Hill was an American company best known for war and strategy board games. Through its video game arm it released only five Atari 2600 cartridges, all of them rare today, and they lean towards planning and puzzles rather than shooting.
The site has four of them. In Shuttle Orbiter, designed by Bill Hood, you pilot the shuttle Challenger to finish building a space station before your fuel runs out. Out of Control (1983), designed by Jim Jacob, is a race against the clock with a drifting spaceship and nothing to shoot. London Blitz, programmed by William J. Sheppard, puts you in wartime London defusing bombs, each one a small logic puzzle. The fourth is Death Trap.
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Out of Control
Out of Control is a 1983 space race against the clock for the Atari 2600. It was designed by Jim Jacob and published by The Avalon Hill Video Game Company, the video game arm of the board game…
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London Blitz
London Blitz is a 1983 Atari 2600 puzzle and strategy game from Avalon Hill, the board game company, programmed by William J. Sheppard. Set in London during the Second World War, it puts you in the Royal Engineers,…
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Death Trap
In the game, you play as a messenger tasked with delivering an important message to the Galactic Emperor. However, you encounter a giant ship known as IT, which wants to prevent the message from being delivered. Your mission…
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