California Games on the Atari 2600 Introduction:Welcome to the heart of action sports, California, where the sun kisses the shores and the streets buzz with the thrill of competition. California Games is your ticket to the ultimate sports adventure, offering a blend of surfing, BMX biking, skateboarding, and more. Choose your sponsors and dive into … Read more
“Brain Games” is a compilation of memory-focused video games developed by Larry Kaplan and published by Atari, Inc. This collection includes 19 different games, challenging players with tasks involving sequences of numbers, symbols, and musical notes. Each game offers various settings to adjust the difficulty, introducing different levels of complexity. The games are categorized as … Read more
Atari 2600 Casino, also known as Poker Plus in the Sears version, is a card game developed and published by Atari, Inc. in 1978. The game provides an opportunity for one to four players to participate in various casino-style card games, such as Black Jack, Stud Poker, and Poker Solitaire. In this game, players can … Read more
Miniature Golf (Sears title: Arcade Golf) for Atari 2600 is a classic video game that brings the fun and challenge of miniature golf to your home console. The game features nine unique, playable holes, each with its own set of obstacles and difficulties. Your objective is to get the ball into the cup using as … Read more
Flag Capture (Sears title: Capture) is a video game released in 1978 by Atari for the Atari 2600. In the game, players are presented with a grid containing white squares, and their objective is to determine which square conceals the flag. To assist in locating the flag, players may be shown a flag symbol or … Read more
Dodge ‘Em (Sears title: Dodger Cars) is a driving-themed maze game for the Atari VCS (later Atari 2600), where the player controls a car driving counter-clockwise, avoiding computer-controlled cars trying to cause a head-on collision. The goal is to collect all the dots from the maze. The maze’s roadways have four gaps at the top, … Read more
Berzerk is a multidirectional shooter video game that was initially released for arcades in 1980 and later for the Atari 2600 in 1982. The game was developed by Stern Electronics and designed by Alan McNeil. Berzerk places the player in the role of a human fighting his way through a maze of interconnected rooms filled … Read more
Football, also known as Atari Football, is a 1978 two-player American football video game designed for the Atari 2600 platform. The game is played from a top-down point of view of the field and features two skill levels and three game variations. Using the joystick, players can choose from one of five different offensive or … Read more
Basketball for the Atari 2600 is a simple, early video game representation of the sport. The game begins with both players at the center of the court, where a jump ball is thrown between them to start the action. The player in the offensive position, with possession of the ball, always faces their assigned shooting … Read more
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