Color Bar Generator
Color Bar Generator is not a game. It is a test cartridge that turns the Atari 2600 into a simple pattern generator for checking and adjusting a television set. It was made by Videosoft, the small company of…
Play ▸Developer: Dan McElroy
Dan McElroy, credited as Daniel McElroy in the manual, worked at Videosoft, the small company that Jerry Lawson, the engineer behind the Fairchild Channel F, set up to write Atari 2600 software. His credit on the site is the Color Bar Generator, which he made with Lawson and Steve Yeung. It is not a game but a test cartridge for adjusting a television, listed as released in December 1983, and originals are extremely rare.
You can step through its test screens in your browser below.