Publisher: Sears

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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Demons to Diamonds

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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Defender

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

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 – Tank Plus

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

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 AKA Championship Soccer

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

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

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

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

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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