Yars’ Revenge is a video game developed and published by Atari for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was designed by Howard Scott Warshaw, who also created the infamous E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial game for the same platform. Yars’ Revenge quickly became Atari’s best-selling original title for the 2600 and is considered one of the console’s … Read more
Warlords resembles a combination of Breakout and Quadrapong (an early Atari arcade game); up to four players play the game at the same time, and the “castles” in the four corners of the screen are brick walls that can be broken with a flaming ball. Warlords gameplay Warlords is a battle between four warlords, 1-4 … Read more
Unfortunately by the time Wizard was ready to be released (1980), Atari was starting to make 4K games with better sounds and graphics than their 2K predecessors. According to programmer Chris Crawford: ‘It didn’t fit well into the product line’. Wizard was simply too dated to be released as is, but probably could have been … Read more
Vanguard is a scrolling shooter arcade game, with a port for the Atari 2600 console released by Atari, Inc. in 1982. Similar to Scramble, players control a ship that automatically flies forward through scrolling levels while consuming a limited fuel supply. Fuel is replenished by destroying enemies, making fuel depletion less common than in Scramble. … Read more
Video Checkers, released in 1980, is a video game created and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari 2600 platform. The game was developed by Carol Shaw during her time at Atari. As one of the first female programmers, Shaw’s work on Video Checkers (alongside 3D Tic-Tac-Toe) marked one of the earliest instances of a … Read more
Video Chess is a game that is played from an overhead perspective. The player uses an “x” cursor to select and move pieces instead of using chess notation. When an attempted move is illegal, a warning sound is made, and the move is not executed. The game provides two options for players to choose from … Read more
Video Olympics is one of the nine 2600 launch titles Atari published when that system was released in September 1977. The cartridge is a collection of games from Atari’s popular arcade Pong series. Sears title: Pong Sports Video Olympics gameplay The games are a collection of bat-and-ball style games, including several previously released by Atari, … Read more
Video Pinball is a loose simulation of an arcade pinball machine: ball launcher, flippers, bumpers, and spinners. Hitting the Atari logo on the playfield four times awards an extra ball. To play the Arcade Pinball game on Atari, you use the joystick controller to interact with the pinball machine. To launch the ball into the … Read more
Track & Field is a 1983 Olympic-themed sports video game developed by Konami for arcades, with a version for Atari 2600 that utilized Atari’s “super chip” technology for enhanced graphics and gameplay variety. The game features six events: 100-meter dash: Run by quickly alternating button presses. Long jump: Run by alternating button presses and use … Read more
SwordQuest: EarthWorld is an action-adventure game released for the Atari 2600 and is part of the SwordQuest series. The gameplay involves navigating through rooms, collecting items, completing action stages to find more items, and discovering sets of numbers when the right combination of items is placed in the right rooms. These sets of numbers (e.g., … Read more