In “Astrowar” for the Atari 2600, the player’s goal is to strike down a variety of cosmic entities, including falling stars, unidentified spacecraft, spinning bombs, and space monsters, while avoiding being hit. The game’s pace accelerates, offering increased challenge as the player’s score rises. You can find the European version here.
The Activision Decathlon is a sports video game developed by David Crane for the Atari 2600. It features 10 different track and field events, simulating a decathlon. The events included in the game are: Activision also offered an incentive for players to perform well in the game. If a player achieved a score that met … Read more
Adventures of Tron is an Atari 2600 game based on the 1982 film “Tron.” In the game, the player controls Tron, who must navigate a grid with four floors while avoiding a variety of attackers inspired by the movie. These attackers include Recognizers, Tanks, and Solar Sailers. The objective is to move Tron between the … Read more
In Air Raiders, the objective is to shoot down as many side-visible enemies as possible, while dodging flak cannons that can cause a drop of up to 15 altitude. The player must also safely land before running out of fuel. If the player shoots down more than ten enemies, they can take off again with … Read more
Airlock, developed by Data Age and released for the Atari 2600 in 1982, is a platform video game that puts the player in a high-stakes scenario inside a sinking nuclear submarine. The primary objective is to escape the submarine by progressing through its various levels while avoiding obstacles and managing time constraints. The gameplay consists … Read more
“Alien,” a 1982 maze-based video game developed for the Atari 2600 and released by Fox Video Games, centers around navigating a human character through spaceship corridors. The primary objective is to obliterate all Alien eggs scattered throughout by engaging with them. Players accumulate points by collecting various items and must obliterate or evade adult Aliens … Read more
“Alien’s Return,” also known as “Col ‘N’,” “E.T. Go Home,” and “Go Go Home Monster,” is a 1983 Atari 2600 video game by ITT Family Games. In this game, an alien who has crash-landed on Earth must recover four spacecraft components to return to his home planet. The player explores various rooms, pressing buttons in … Read more
Amidar was the first in the grid capture sub-genre of maze games and was highly cloned in arcades and for home systems. Amidar gameplay The format is similar to that of Pac-Man: the player is opposed by enemies who kill on contact.[2] The enemies gradually increase in number as the player advances from one level … Read more
Action Force is indeed the European version of G.I. Joe: Cobra Strike. In this adaptation, the story revolves around the Action Force training camp being attacked by a giant Cobra Combat Machine, constructed by the villainous Baron Ironblood. Baron Ironblood was initially the leader of the Red Shadows in the Action Force comic book universe. … Read more
Actionauts is a game that requires you to program your robot to execute a sequence of commands. By using the joystick, you can set the commands that the robot needs to follow to navigate through a specific path. The game is available on Atari 2600, and it provides a range of preset mazes for players … Read more