Slot Racers
Slot Racers is a two-player chase game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1978. It was the first game Warren Robinett designed at Atari, before he went on to make Adventure. Two cars race around a maze…
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Warren Robinett joined Atari in November 1977. His three 2600 cartridges are all on the site. Slot Racers (1978), his first, is a two-player chase through city streets with missiles that turn corners. Adventure (1980), a graphical take on the text game Colossal Cave Adventure, sends you after a chalice past dragons and a thieving bat. Because Atari did not credit its designers, Robinett hid a secret room with his name in it, one of the earliest video game Easter eggs. BASIC Programming is a tiny programming language, though its keypads are not emulated here.
He left Atari in 1979 and founded The Learning Company in 1980. Pick a cartridge below and play it in your browser.
BASIC Programming
BASIC Programming is not a game but a small programming language on a cartridge. Warren Robinett wrote it for Atari at the same time as he was finishing Adventure, and Atari released it for the 2600 in 1980.…
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