Genre: Action
Piece o’ Cake
In Atari 2600’s Piece o’ Cake, you play as a chef with the objective of constructing cakes. A conveyor belt is located at the bottom of the screen, with a platter appearing on the left side, moving towards the right. You, at the top of the screen, must take cake layers from the oven and … Read more
Oystron
Oystron is an action-packed game for the Atari 2600, where the player controls a ship and battles against various enemies, including space oysters. The main objective is to collect pearls dropped by space oysters and deposit them in the “pearl zone” on the left side of the screen. Players must also defend the pearls from … Read more
Pac-Man
Pac-Man is a maze action game developed and released by Namco for arcades in 1980. The objective of the game is to eat all of the dots placed in the maze while avoiding four colored ghosts — Blinky (red), Pinky (pink), Inky (cyan), and Clyde (orange) — that pursue him. When Pac-Man eats all of … Read more
Off the Wall
Off the Wall is an Atari 2600 game released in 1989, developed by Axlon and published by Atari Corporation. As a Breakout clone, it features an Asian theme and a unique twist on the classic gameplay. Instead of using paddle controllers like Breakout or Super Breakout, Off the Wall is controlled with a joystick. In … Read more
Omega Race
Omega Race, a shoot ’em up arcade game developed by Ron Haliburton and released by Midway in 1981, was later adapted for the Atari 2600 by CBS Electronics. Unique among CBS’s Atari 2600 games, Omega Race includes an extra 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature marketed as “RAM Plus.” Set in 2003, … Read more