Developer: Jim Huether

Jim Huether programmed at Atari in the console’s first years, and his four games on this site date from that early period. They are simple, but each tries a different idea:

Flag Capture (1978): a deduction game in which you search a grid for a hidden flag, using clues.
Hunt & Score (1978): a memory game of matching pairs, made for the Keyboard Controller, which the browser emulator does not support.
Sky Diver (1979): a two-player parachuting contest based on Atari’s arcade game.
Steeplechase: a horse race for up to four players on paddles, sold only by Sears.

Sears sold several of them under its own names, such as Capture and Dare Diver. Choose one below and play it in your browser.

Flag Capture

Flag Capture is a 1978 Atari 2600 guessing game designed by Jim Huether and published by Atari (Sears sold it as Capture). A flag is hidden under one square of a grid, and you move an explorer around…

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Steeplechase

Steeplechase is a horse-racing game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Jim Huether at Atari and sold only by Sears under its Tele-Games label. It is a home version of the 1975 Kee Games arcade machine, and one…

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Sky Diver

Sky Diver is a two-player parachuting game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1979, based on its 1978 arcade game of the same name. Jim Huether programmed the home version, and Sears sold it in its own…

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Hunt & Score – Memory Match

Hunt & Score is Atari's 1978 memory game for the Atari 2600, the video game version of the card game where you turn over two cards at a time and try to find matching pairs. It was also…

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