Sprint Master
Sprint Master is a top-down racing game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1988, late in the console's life. It was programmed by Bob Polaro. One or two players race tiny cars around a choice of tracks,…
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Bob Polaro programmed Atari 2600 games at Atari in the early 1980s and came back to the console years later, running his own company. His earliest game on the site is RealSports Volleyball (1982), for which he reportedly spent a day playing volleyball on the beach before he started programming.
After Jack Tramiel’s Atari Corporation revived the 2600 in the mid-1980s, Polaro worked on several late releases. He designed Desert Falcon, first planned for the Atari 7800, and programmed its 2600 version himself. He was hired to finish and expand Road Runner, a project stopped in 1984, and it finally came out in 1989. Sprint Master (1988) is a top-down racer for one or two players, and Rampage, Activision’s 1989 version of the monster arcade game, arrived long after the early-1980s boom. The list also includes his version of Defender.
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RealSports Volleyball
RealSports Volleyball is a two-on-two beach volleyball game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1982, as part of its RealSports line of sports cartridges. Bob Polaro did the programming and Alan J. Murphy the graphics. It has…
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Road Runner
Road Runner is a side-scrolling chase game based on the Warner Bros. cartoons, released for the Atari 2600 by Atari Corporation in 1989, one of the last games Atari put out for the console. Programmed by Bob Polaro,…
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Desert Falcon
Desert Falcon is a late-1980s isometric shooter from Atari. You fly a falcon over a diagonally scrolling desert, grabbing the Pharaoh's scattered treasure and dodging the creatures that guard it. Bob Polaro designed the game, first planned for…
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