Demons to Diamonds is a 1982 paddle-controlled shooting game from Atari for the Atari 2600, programmed by Nick Turner, who had earlier brought Super Breakout to the console. Rows of demons drift across the screen, and the colour…
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Sears title: Defender Licensed by Williams Electronics DEFENDER ORIGINAL ATARI 2600 GAME INSTRUCTIONS ATARI DEFENDER is very similar to the Williams coin-operated DEFENDER game. However, you will find some differences in the game play as well as in…
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Codebreaker is a 1978 Atari cartridge with two logic games: a number-guessing game in the style of the board game Mastermind, and the ancient strategy game Nim. Released in October 1978 alongside Brain Games and Hunt & Score,…
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Combat is one of the nine cartridges that launched the Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) in 1977. It came in the box with most Atari consoles until 1982, and Sears sold it under the name…
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Circus Atari is a 1980 paddle game from Atari, programmed by Mike Lorenzen. You slide a seesaw along the bottom of the screen so that two acrobatic clowns can take turns flying up to pop rows of balloons.…
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Pelé's Soccer, first sold as Championship Soccer, is Atari's own football (soccer) game for the Atari 2600, designed by Steve Wright. It was planned for the 1980 holiday season and reached shops in early 1981. Each side fields…
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Bowling is one of the early Atari VCS (later Atari 2600) cartridges, released by Atari in January 1979 and also sold by Sears under the same name. It was designed and programmed by Larry Kaplan. It is a…
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Breakout is the Atari 2600 version of Atari's 1976 arcade classic: one paddle, one ball and a wall of coloured bricks. It came out for the console in November 1978, was programmed by Brad Stewart, and became one…
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Blackjack is one of the first Atari 2600 cartridges. Bob Whitehead designed it for Atari, and it was one of the games on sale when the console launched in September 1977. You play against a computer dealer, using…
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Asteroids is Atari's 1981 home version of its own 1979 arcade hit. You steer a small ship through a field of drifting space rocks and blast them into smaller and smaller pieces before they hit you. The Atari…
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