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.
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, Col ‘N and E.T. Go Home. You can play it here in your browser, with nothing to install.
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 monsters chasing you. The programmers are unknown; the title screen only says “R.J.P.G.” and 1983. The same game was sold under several other names, including Peter Penguin. You can play Frisco here in your browser.
Fire Spinner is the name of a 1983 PAL cartridge sold in Europe on the Home Vision label, but the game you can play on this page is really Spinning Fireball, an unreleased NTSC prototype marked “Vidco (c) 1983”. Collector databases list Fire Spinner as one release of the same game, which also appeared as Firebug from Suntek and under names such as Fire Ball and Fire Dragon. No copy of the Home Vision cartridge itself has been dumped, so the prototype is the closest you can get. You can try it here in your browser.
Alien’s Return is a 1983 maze game for the Atari 2600, developed by Gem International Corporation and sold by ITT Family Games. The same game was also sold as Go Go Home Monster, Col ‘N, E.T. Go Home and, under a German title, UFI und sein gefährlicher Einsatz (“UFI and his dangerous mission”). You can play it here in your browser, with nothing to install.