Genre: Action

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

Outlaw – Gunslinger

Outlaw for the Atari 2600 is a game developed and published by Atari, Inc. that offers both single-player and two-player modes. The game is a port of the arcade version, and while it retains some of its features, it also introduces new gameplay elements and variations. In the two-player Gunslinger mode, players control on-screen cowboys … 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

Night Driver

Night Driver is one of the earliest first-person racing video games and is commonly believed to be one of the first published video games to display real-time first-person graphics. Night Driver gameplay The player controls a car which must be driven along a road at nighttime without crashing into the sides of the road as … Read more

Nightmare

Nightmare is an Atari 2600 game in which the player is trapped in a terrifying nightmare world filled with dangerous creatures like birds, demonic faces, and deadly balloons. The game features three increasingly challenging scenarios, where the player must navigate through various obstacles to reach the escape vehicle, a hovering helicopter. To progress through the … Read more

Montezuma’s Revenge: Starring Panama Joe

Montezuma’s Revenge is a pioneering game in the Metroidvania genre, released in the early 1980s. The player takes control of a character named Panama Joe (also known as Pedro), who explores the underground pyramid within the 16th-century Aztec temple of Emperor Montezuma II. This maze-like structure is filled with enemies, obstacles, traps, and various dangers. … Read more