Dodge ‘Em is a 1980 driving maze game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Carla Meninsky and published by Atari. Sears sold it under the name Dodger Cars. You drive round a four-lane track collecting dots while a computer car drives the other way, trying to hit you head-on. It takes seconds to learn and works just as well against a friend. You can play it here in your browser.
Warlords is a castle-smashing paddle game for up to four players, programmed by Carla Meninsky and released by Atari in 1981, with a Sears edition as well. Each player guards a castle in one corner of the screen and uses a shield to bounce a fireball into the other castles. It takes the bat-and-ball idea of Breakout and turns it into a battle, and it is at its best with friends sitting next to you. You can play it here in your browser.
Star Raiders is a first-person space combat simulator first released as a cartridge by Atari in 1979 and it was ported to Atari 2600 in 1982. Star Raiders gameplay Like the text-based Star Trek games, in Star Raiders the player’s ship maneuvers about a two-dimensional grid fighting a fleet of enemy spaceships.In Star Raiders, this … Read more