Missile Command
Missile Command is Atari's 1981 Atari 2600 version of its own 1980 arcade game. Rob Fulop programmed it, and it became a commercial success. You defend six cities from waves of falling missiles by placing explosions in their…
Play ▸Sears, the American department store chain, sold the Atari 2600 and its games under its own Tele-Games brand. Most of the 54 cartridges on this page are Atari games that Sears sold in its stores and catalogues, often under plainer names. Video Olympics became Pong Sports, Surround became Chase, Video Pinball became Arcade Pinball and Hangman became Spelling. Sears consoles came with Air-Sea Battle as Target Fun instead of Combat, which Sears sold separately as Tank Plus. Super Breakout even came out first as a Sears Tele-Games exclusive in 1981, a few months before the Atari edition.
The list covers much of Atari’s early library, from the 1977 launch titles to arcade conversions like Asteroids and Missile Command. A few to start with:
Air-Sea Battle (1977): the shooting gallery Sears packed in with its console.
Combat (1977): two-player tank duels, sold by Sears as Tank Plus.
Video Olympics (1977): Pong-style ball games, known at Sears as Pong Sports.
Super Breakout (1981): first released as a Sears Tele-Games exclusive.
Hangman (1978): the word game Sears called Spelling.
Video Pinball (1981): sold by Sears as Arcade Pinball.
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Missile Command is Atari's 1981 Atari 2600 version of its own 1980 arcade game. Rob Fulop programmed it, and it became a commercial success. You defend six cities from waves of falling missiles by placing explosions in their…
Play ▸Math Gran Prix is an educational Atari 2600 cartridge from 1982, programmed by Suki Lee at Atari and aimed at children of about 7 to 10. It turns arithmetic practice into a board-game style car race: every sum…
Play ▸Maze Craze: A Game of Cops and Robbers is a 1980 maze race for the Atari 2600, programmed by Rick Maurer and published by Atari. Sears sold it under the name Maze Mania for its Tele-Games line. Two…
Play ▸Hangman is Atari's 1978 version of the classic pen-and-paper word game, programmed by Alan Miller, who later co-founded Activision. Sears sold the same cartridge under the name Spelling. You guess a hidden word one letter at a time,…
Play ▸Haunted House is a 1982 adventure game from Atari, programmed by James Andreasen. You are just a pair of eyes in a pitch-black mansion, lighting matches to find the three pieces of a magic urn while a bat,…
Play ▸Human Cannonball is one of the earliest Atari 2600 cartridges, released by Atari in 1979 (Sears sold it as Cannon Man). Your job is simple to explain and tricky to master: set the angle and speed of a…
Play ▸Hunt & Score is Atari's 1978 memory game for the Atari 2600, the video game version of the card game where you turn over two cards at a time and try to find matching pairs. It was also…
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