Publisher: Gem International Corporation

Gem International Corporation was a Taiwanese company that made Atari 2600 games. In Europe they were sold under Home Vision, a Belgian brand used by the company VDI, mostly as PAL cartridges dated 1983. Like many European releases of the time, the games often appeared under several names from different companies, and some were versions of games first published elsewhere: Wall Break is Bomb’s Wall-Defender, and Sky Alien is Bomb’s Assault. Little is documented about some of them, and programmer credits are rare.

Frisco: kick blocks around a maze to squash monsters, in the style of Pengo.
Go Go Home Monster: a maze game about an alien collecting parts to fly home.
I.Q. 180: a memory game with a grid of letters and symbols.
Lilly Adventure: a platform game in which the seasons change as Lilly jumps her way home.

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World End

World End is a 1983 shoot 'em up sold in Europe on the Home Vision label, whose cartridges were made by Gem International. A huge alien mothership hangs at the top of the screen, smaller craft break away…

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Wall Break

Wall Break is the Home Vision release of Wall-Defender, a single-player shooter for the Atari 2600 first published in 1983 by Bomb, the label of the Asian developer Onbase Co. Home Vision was a Belgian brand, used by…

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Sky Alien

Sky Alien is a European PAL release of a fixed-screen space shooter that the company Bomb published as Assault. Sky Alien came out on the Home Vision label, a Belgian brand that the company VDI used to sell…

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Racing Car

Racing Car is an obscure Atari 2600 racing cartridge released in Europe under the Home Vision label. Home Vision was a Belgian brand, used by the company VDI, for 2600 games made by the Taiwanese company Gem International…

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Lilly Adventure (Europe)

Lilly Adventure is a 1983 platform game for the Atari 2600, made in Taiwan and sold in Europe by Home Vision as a PAL cartridge. Little Lilly is jumping her way home through a landscape full of animals,…

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Lilly Adventure (USA)

Lilly Adventure is a little-known platform game for the Atari 2600 from the early 1980s. This page has the NTSC version of the cartridge, the one that runs at the 60 Hz picture rate used in North America.…

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I.Q. 180

I.Q. 180 is a memory game for the Atari 2600 from 1983. It was sold in Europe by Home Vision, and the same game also appeared as I.Q. Memory Teaser. Instead of shooting or jumping, you study a…

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Go Go Home Monster

Go Go Home Monster is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, sold in Europe under the Home Vision label. The game was developed by Gem International Corporation, and the same cartridge also appeared as Alien's Return,…

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Frisco

Frisco is a 1983 maze game released in Europe by Home Vision (Gem International Corporation) as a PAL cartridge. It plays in the style of Sega's arcade game Pengo: you kick blocks around a maze to squash the…

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