Raiders of the Lost Ark is an action-adventure game created for the Atari 2600 based on the movie of the same name. Raiders of the Lost Ark gameplay The player controls Indiana Jones as he searches for the lost Ark of the Covenant. The game requires the player to use two different controllers: controller 2 … Read more
It’s a prototype.
Haunted House is a 1982 adventure game for the Atari 2600, where the player’s objective is to find and recover three pieces of a magic urn hidden throughout 24 rooms in a mansion. The player uses matches to illuminate items and certain areas within the game. With nine lives, the player must navigate the mansion, … Read more
Loosely based on Adventure
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
In Atari 2600’s Crypts of Chaos, the goal is to battle monsters within the crypts, collect treasures, and successfully escape. The starting depth in the crypt depends on the game selection. Choosing game one, two, three, or four places you at levels five, nine, thirteen, or one, respectively. You have various weapons at your disposal: … Read more
Adventure, developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980, is notable for containing the first well-known Easter egg in a video game, which revealed the designer’s name. The Easter egg can be found by performing a specific sequence of actions within the game. When the … Read more