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
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
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Sears title: Chase One of the nine Atari 2600 launch games
Street Racer, also known as Speedway II in its Sears release, was one of the two launch titles for the Atari 2600, along with Air-Sea Battle. Developed by Larry Kaplan, Street Racer offered a total of 27 game variations, providing players with a diverse gaming experience. The game was divided into six sub-games: Each sub-game … Read more
Sears title: Super Breakout. Super Breakout is a sequel to the 1976 video game Breakout released in arcades in September 1978 by Atari Super Breakout gameplay The fundamental gameplay—use a paddle to bounce a ball into a wall of destructible bricks—is the same as Breakout, but Super Breakout contains three different game modes: Double gives the … Read more
Star Raiders is a first-person space combat simulator first released as a cartridge by Atari in 1979 and it was ported to Atari 2600 in 1982. Star Raiders gameplay Like the text-based Star Trek games, in Star Raiders the player’s ship maneuvers about a two-dimensional grid fighting a fleet of enemy spaceships.In Star Raiders, this … Read more