Developer: Telesys

Telesys was a small game company in Fremont, California, which released six Atari 2600 cartridges under the slogan “Fun in games” before the video game crash of 1983 put it out of business. Its leftover stock ended up in bargain bins. The site has all six. Don Ruffcorn programmed three of them, Jim Rupp wrote Ram It, and Stargunner came from freelancer Alex Leavens.

Fast Food: a giant pair of lips gobbles flying food but must avoid purple pickles. It won an Arkie Awards certificate for humour.
Ram It: blast back bars of colour closing in from both sides, with a musical note for every hit.
Stargunner: a horizontally scrolling shooter in the spirit of Defender.
Demolition Herby: paint a grid red while chase cars try to ram you.
Cosmic Creeps: a dodging stage and a rescue stage, timed by a sinking planet.
Coconuts: help an explorer dodge the coconuts a monkey throws at him.

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Coconuts

Atari 2600 Coconuts: A Jungle Adventure Dive into the wild with “Coconuts,” where Coco the mischievous monkey is causing chaos by throwing coconuts at Stanley I. Presume, our fearless jungle explorer. It’s your mission to help Stanley dodge…

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Ram It

Ram It is a fast shooting game for the Atari 2600 from Telesys, programmed by Jim Rupp. Your "Ramroid" rides a track in the middle of the screen while bars of colour grow in from both sides, and…

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Stargunner

Stargunner is a horizontally scrolling space shooter for the Atari 2600, designed by Alex Leavens and published by the small Californian company Telesys. It plays much like Defender without the people to rescue: you fly back and forth…

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Fast Food

Fast Food is a 1982 Atari 2600 game by the small publisher Telesys, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. You steer a giant pair of chattering lips around the screen and gobble up burgers, fries, pizza and drinks as they…

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Demolition Herby

Demolition Herby is a 1983 Atari 2600 game from Telesys, a small publisher in Fremont, California, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. You steer Herby, a little green car, around a grid of white lines, painting them red to black…

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Cosmic Creeps

Cosmic Creeps is a 1982 Atari 2600 game from Telesys, a small Californian publisher, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. A planet is falling out of orbit, and you have to fly an Orbinaut up to a space station and…

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