Garfield was never finished. According to Woita, Garfield still needed about 2 to 3 months of work before it would be complete. The final game was to have hundreds of screens and probably would have been the largest 2600 game to date. Garfield finally turned up when Jim Davis finally gave Woita permission to distribute … Read more
Unreleased prototype game included in Atari Flashback 2
Licensed by Namco Galaxian Game Instruction Manual GALAXIAN: NOTES FROM THE COMMANDER Welcome aboard the missile laser base. I’m Commander Champion, your training instructor. These laser bases are used to protect our Universe from alien attack. Each laser base carries missiles which you’ll launch from your control panel. In your first training mission, you’ll be … Read more
PAL-only release; developed by Sculptured Software. You can read more about this game in the US version of Fatal Run.
Dukes of Hazzard is not really a prototype. The game was actually burned onto regular ROM chips that were just about to be put into carts and shipped when Atari abruptly decided to cancel the game. According to the programmer Mark Hahn the game was still being worked on, so it is a mystery as … Read more
Based off the 1984 movie, Dune was to be an action/adventure game along the same lines as the classic VCS game Adventure. Dune was originally started by programmers Bruce Poehlman and Gary Stark, but they had only gone through the brainstorming process when work was stopped. It appears that another programmer may have been assigned … Read more
Atari 2600 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial considered the worst video game of all time and cause of “The Video Game Crash of 1983” In the Atari 2600 game the players control the alien E.T. from a top-down perspective. The objective is to collect three pieces of an interplanetary telephone. The pieces are found scattered randomly throughout … Read more
This is prototype. It appears to be almost complete, but still needs some work to be a finished Atari 2600 game. An August 1984 internal memo states it was 85% done with 8 more weeks needed, although the onscreen copyright date is 1983.(source: AtariMania.com)
This is prototype. Elk Attack is a port of the obscure Taito arcade game Electric Yo-Yo! (source: AtariMania.com)
Licensed by Namco DIG DUG original Atari 2600 manual DIG DUG GAME OBJECTIVE You are Dig Dug, the underground miner. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, subterranean mazes. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must also look out for the fierce Fygar(tm) and mean Pooka(tm) that lurk underground. Their touch kills| Worse, … Read more