Genre: Education

Education games on the Atari 2600 were meant to teach as well as entertain, from arithmetic drills to early learning for small children. The site lists four in this category, and three of them are rarities.
The oldest is the NTSC version of Basic Math, Atari’s 1977 arithmetic cartridge by Gary Palmer, with problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Words-Attack, from the Sancho label with a 1983 copyright, plays like an invaders game in which you shoot letters to collect them. Two unreleased Atari prototypes were made for the large Kid’s Controller keypad: Grover’s Music Maker (1983), where the Sesame Street monster dances to songs, and Peek-A-Boo (1984), developed with child psychologist Dr. Lee Salk. The emulator does not support that keypad, so these two load but cannot really be played.
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