Game origin: 3rd party

Omega Race

Omega Race, a shoot ’em up arcade game developed by Ron Haliburton and released by Midway in 1981, was later adapted for the Atari 2600 by CBS Electronics. Unique among CBS’s Atari 2600 games, Omega Race includes an extra 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature marketed as “RAM Plus.” Set in 2003, … Read more

Nightmare

Nightmare is an Atari 2600 game in which the player is trapped in a terrifying nightmare world filled with dangerous creatures like birds, demonic faces, and deadly balloons. The game features three increasingly challenging scenarios, where the player must navigate through various obstacles to reach the escape vehicle, a hovering helicopter. To progress through the … Read more

Montezuma’s Revenge: Starring Panama Joe

Montezuma’s Revenge is a pioneering game in the Metroidvania genre, released in the early 1980s. The player takes control of a character named Panama Joe (also known as Pedro), who explores the underground pyramid within the 16th-century Aztec temple of Emperor Montezuma II. This maze-like structure is filled with enemies, obstacles, traps, and various dangers. … Read more

Moonsweeper

In Moonsweeper for the Atari 2600, the player’s goal is to rescue stranded miners from the moons in Star Quadrant Jupiter. The game begins in space, where the player must navigate around deadly aurora flares, photon torches, and space bullets from the sun. When a moon passes by, the player can descend to its surface … Read more