Chase the Chuck Wagon, released in 1983, is a promotional video game for the Atari 2600. The game is centered around a dog named Chuckie, who must navigate through four different maze designs to reach the opening beneath the chuckwagon. Players have a limited time of 60 or 30 seconds per maze, depending on the … Read more
Taz, released in 1983 for the Atari 2600, is a simple yet addictive game in which players control the Looney Tunes character, the Tasmanian Devil. The objective of the game is to guide Taz between the stage lines to eat hamburgers and other edible items while avoiding dynamites. The game only requires the use of … Read more
Astérix, the first-ever Asterix game, was released in 1983 for the Atari 2600 or Atari VCS. The game was developed as an altered version of the game Taz, which featured the Looney Tunes character Taz. Astérix was specifically designed to cater to European markets, where the Asterix comic series was already very popular. In the … Read more
Congo Bongo is an arcade platform game developed by Sega in 1983 and later released for the Atari 2600. The game shares some gameplay elements and similarities with Nintendo’s Donkey Kong from 1981, but it features an isometric perspective similar to Sega’s Zaxxon, released in Japan in late 1981. In Congo Bongo, players control a … Read more
Laser Gates is a game for the Atari 2600 that puts players in control of the Dante Dart, a spaceship tasked with navigating through the caverns of the Cryptic Computer. The Cryptic Computer is the galactic defense synthesizer responsible for maintaining peace for centuries since the Wars on Zevon. However, it has malfunctioned, and the … Read more
Allia Quest is a space-themed shooter game for the Atari 2600 console. Players control a spaceship and navigate through space, engaging in battles against various alien races. The objective of the game is to eliminate all the aliens before they can hit the player’s ship. There are eight different alien races in the game, each … Read more
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom for the Atari 2600 is a pseudo-3D rail shooter game set in the 25th century. Players take on the role of Buck Rogers, fighting through 16 levels of increasing difficulty, each with four rounds of intense space combat. The ultimate goal is to defeat the powerful Mother Ship. Throughout the … Read more
Qbert’s Qubes is a puzzle-platform game for the Atari 2600, which serves as a sequel to the original Qbert game. In this game, players control Qbert, who has six lives. The main objective is to match a row of four qubes to the target qube displayed in the upper left corner of the screen. Qbert … Read more
Name This Game and Win $10,000, often shortened to Name This Game, is an action game developed by U.S. Games for the Atari 2600. In this game, players take on the role of a scuba diver who must protect a treasure from an octopus located at the top of the screen. The octopus attempts to … Read more
Atari 2600 Master Builder is a construction-themed game where you play as a builder trying to complete the construction of several buildings in Spectraville. At the start of each level, a blueprint of the building will appear on the screen for 5 seconds, and you must remember its design. Your task is to gather bricks … Read more