Starpath, which started out in 1981 as Arcadia Corporation, is credited here as the developer of its own Supercharger tapes. The Supercharger was a cartridge-shaped add-on that gave the Atari 2600 6 KB of extra memory and loaded games from an ordinary cassette player, and only Starpath made software for it. Its small in-house team, among them Dennis Caswell, Stephen Landrum, Scott Nelson, Steve Hales, Brian McGhie and Kevin Norman, used that memory for bigger worlds, sharper graphics and games that loaded in several parts.
The ten games filed under Starpath range from shooters to role-playing and puzzle games:
Dragonstomper: a turn-based fantasy role-playing game in three parts, ending in a dragon’s cave.
Escape from the Mindmaster: six 3-D mazes and a series of mind tests set by an alien captor.
Suicide Mission: a miniature submarine blasts viruses in a patient’s bloodstream.
Rabbit Transit: a rabbit crosses a meadow, then hops across colour-changing ledges.
Killer Satellites: a shooter with radar, a fuel gauge and a gun that overheats.
Survival Island: a three-part survival adventure from raft to temple, sold only by mail order.
Starpath was taken over by Epyx in 1984. No tape deck is needed here: pick a game below and play it in your browser.
Communist Mutants from Space Overview Game Development “Communist Mutants from Space” is a classic fixed shooter game, crafted by Stephen H. Landrum for the Atari 2600, utilizing the Starpath Supercharger cassette add-on for enhanced gameplay. Released in 1982…
Play ▸Phaser Patrol is a first-person space combat game designed by Dennis Caswell and released in 1982 by Arcadia, the company soon renamed Starpath. It was the first numbered release for the Supercharger, an add-on that plugged into the…
Play ▸Survival Island is a 1983 action-adventure by Starpath, programmed by Scott Nelson. It was not sold as a normal cartridge but on cassette tape for the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that plugged into the Atari 2600's cartridge slot,…
Play ▸Sword of Saros is a 1983 dungeon adventure for the Starpath Supercharger, the add-on that let the Atari 2600 load bigger games from audio cassettes. Programmed by Jon Leupp and Stephen Landrum, it sends you through an evil…
Play ▸Suicide Mission is a 1982 action game for the Atari 2600 by Steve Hales and Stephen Landrum, released on cassette by Arcadia, the company soon renamed Starpath. It ran on the Supercharger, an add-on that loaded games from…
Play ▸Rabbit Transit is a 1983 game by Starpath for the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on for the Atari 2600 that loaded games from audio cassettes. It was designed by Brian McGhie. You guide a rabbit across a busy meadow…
Play ▸Killer Satellites is a space shooter programmed by Kevin Norman and released by Starpath on cassette tape, most likely in early 1983. It ran on the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that loaded games from an ordinary cassette player.…
Play ▸Escape from the Mindmaster is a first-person maze game designed by Dennis Caswell and released by Starpath in November 1982. It came on cassette for the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that gave the 2600 far more memory. Kidnapped…
Play ▸Fireball is a block-breaking game designed by Scott Nelson and released in August 1982 by Arcadia, the company soon renamed Starpath. It was one of the first games for the Supercharger, an add-on that plugged into the Atari…
Play ▸Dragonstomper is a fantasy role-playing game for the Atari 2600, designed by Stephen Landrum and released by Starpath on cassette tape in late 1982 or early 1983. It ran on the Starpath Supercharger, an add-on that loaded games…
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