Knight on the Town is an Atari 2600 game in which players assume the role of a knight attempting to rescue a princess from a tower. The primary objective is to construct a drawbridge, piece by piece, in order to cross the moat and reach the princess. While assembling the drawbridge, the knight must avoid … Read more
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Kaboom! is an action video game developed and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1981. The game was designed by Larry Kaplan, one of the co-founders of Activision. In Kaboom!, the player takes on the role of a “Bucket Brigade” member, attempting to catch bombs dropped by the “Mad Bomber” using a set … Read more
Kamikaze Saucers is an unreleased Atari 2600 shooter game in which players control an unusually shaped ship to shoot down saucers that fly across the screen. The objective is to destroy these saucers before they initiate their kamikaze attacks. If players don’t shoot the saucers down quickly enough, the saucers will engage in kamikaze mode … Read more
Atari 2600’s I Want My Mommy is the NTSC release of Bit Corporation’s Open Sesame. This version of the game maintains the same level of excitement and challenge as Open Sesame.
Atari 2600 Ice Hockey offers a two-on-two ice hockey experience. Each team consists of a goalie and an offensive player, though the goalie is not restricted to the goal area. Similar to the actual sport, the goal is to gain possession of the puck and shoot it into the opponent’s goal to score points. When … Read more
Grover’s Music Maker was originally called Monkey Music and featured a dancing monkey instead of Grover. Grover’s Music Maker was an attempt by Atari to introduce children to the music through some well known (and some not so well known) children’s tunes. The game was shown at the Winter 1983 Winter CES. It’s unknown why … Read more
Gyruss, a shoot ’em up arcade game developed by Yoshiki Okamoto and released by Konami in 1983, features a contemporary Atari 2600 port by Parker Brothers. The game employs one-point perspective graphics, with the vanishing point at the screen’s center. The player’s spaceship moves along the screen’s edge in a circular path, with all shots … Read more