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Gyruss

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

H.E.R.O.

H.E.R.O. (Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation) is a video game developed by John Van Ryzin and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1984. In the game, the player takes on the role of a rescue worker equipped with a helicopter backpack and various tools to save victims trapped in a mine. The mine consists … Read more

Halloween

Halloween is a horror video game for the Atari 2600. Although the game was called Halloween, and featured the film’s theatrical poster as its cover art as well as the movie’s main music theme, the game itself never refers to any characters, including the killer, by their names in the film. Halloween gameplay Players take … Read more

Harbor Escape

In the Atari 2600 game titled Harbor Escape, players navigate a covert submarine through classified Russian waters while dodging enemy mines and navigating complex waterways. Periodically, the air supply must be replenished by passing through designated “air” tanks. Players should avoid contact with all objects except those labeled “air.” The game’s resemblance to Activision’s popular … Read more

Hell Driver

Hole Hunter

Hole Hunter is a whack-a-mole-style game for the Atari 2600, where the player controls a character with a hammer in a desert-like setting surrounded by holes. As the holes light up, rodents appear, and the player must hit them back into their burrows with the hammer. Successfully hitting a rodent awards the player 100 points, … Read more