Home Vision was a Belgian label that the company VDI used to sell Atari 2600 games made by the Taiwanese firm Gem International Corporation. Its cartridges came out in the PAL format for European televisions, many of them in 1983, and an instruction leaflet gives a Brussels address. Like many budget labels of the time, Home Vision shared its games with other sellers. Frisco also appeared as Peter Penguin, Racing Car as Hell Driver and Go Go Home Monster as Alien’s Return, all from ITT Family Games. Quelle sold several of them in Germany under German titles.
The site has 14 games listed under Home Vision. A few of the files are other releases of the same games, such as a prototype or a Taiwanese NTSC cartridge. Some to try:
Frisco: kick blocks around a maze to squash monsters, in the style of Pengo.
Panda Chase: guide a hungry panda through huts, tunnels and a bamboo forest.
Parachute: steer a parachutist through a crowded sky onto a podium.
Base Attack: fly over a city and wipe out the bases firing at you.
World End: defend the ground from a giant alien mothership.
Go Go Home Monster: help a stranded alien find the parts of its spaceship.
Browse the list below and play any of them in your browser.
Base Attack is a 1983 shooter sold in Europe on the Home Vision label and manufactured in Taiwan by Gem International. You fly a small craft over a city skyline and try to wipe out the enemy bases on the ground while they fire back. The same game was sold under several other names, most notably as Z-Tack from Bomb. You can play it here in your browser.
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 from it, and you defend the ground from a laser cannon at the bottom. Like many European cartridges of the time, it was sold under a whole list of other names. You can play it here in your browser.
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 the company VDI to sell Atari 2600 games made by the Taiwanese firm Gem International Corporation. Its Wall Break cartridge is usually dated to 1984. The page runs the European (PAL) cartridge. You can play it here in your browser.
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 Atari 2600 games made by the Taiwanese firm Gem International Corporation. The game was sold under a long list of other names too, including Space Raider, Laser Loop, Fire Birds and Invasion der UFO’s. It is sometimes described as a Space Invaders clone, but it plays more like Demon Attack. You can play it here in your browser.
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 Corporation. Very little is documented about this cartridge, but you can still try it here in your browser.
Panda Chase is a little-known Atari 2600 cartridge sold in Europe under the Home Vision label. Home Vision was a Belgian brand that distributed games made by Gem International Corporation of Taiwan, and Panda Chase came out only in the European PAL format. You guide a hungry panda through huts, tunnels and a bamboo forest in search of food, and you have to keep an eye on his energy the whole time. You can play it here in your browser.
Parachute is a 1983 Atari 2600 game made in Taiwan by Gem International and sold in Europe on the Home Vision label, as a PAL-only cartridge. You guide a parachutist down through a crowded sky and try to land on a small podium at the bottom. It is a simple dodging game with a nice twist at the end: the better your landing, the bigger your bonus. You can play it here in your browser.
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, and the seasons change around her as she goes. You can play it here in your browser.
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. You can play it here in your browser.
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 grid of letters and symbols and try to remember where each one sits. You can play it here in your browser.