Publisher: Sega

Sega, the arcade game maker, published its own Atari 2600 cartridges in 1983 and 1984. Most of them are home versions of its arcade games, scaled down to fit the console. Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Tac-Scan, Sub-Scan (based on Deep Scan), Congo Bongo and Up’n Down all started out in Sega arcades. Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator squeezes a vector arcade game with a panel of buttons onto a one-button joystick. Sega also converted two Bally Midway hits, Tapper and Spy Hunter. Thunderground is a tunnelling game that borrows its idea from the arcade game Borderline. Outside studios did some of the work: Beck-Tech converted Congo Bongo and Tapper.
The site has all ten Sega titles listed here, including the unreleased Ixion prototype. Some places to start:

Spy Hunter (1984): a spy car that turns into a speedboat, played with two joysticks.
Tapper (1984): a bartender keeping four bars supplied, with soda instead of beer.
Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator (1983): command the Enterprise against Klingons and NOMAD.
Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom (1983): a behind-the-ship shooter skimming low over a planet.
Thunderground (1983): dig tunnels towards enemy bases while tanks hunt you.
Ixion: a prototype of a game that was never released.

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Congo Bongo

Congo Bongo is Sega's isometric climbing game: a safari hunter chases a coconut-throwing gorilla up a mountain and across a river full of snapping fish. Sega published this Atari 5200 cartridge in 1983 with two of the arcade…

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Zaxxon

Zaxxon is Sega's own Atari 5200 version of its 1982 isometric arcade shooter, programmed by Ron J. Fortier and released in August 1984. You fly a fighter through two fortresses and the space between them, watching your altitude…

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Congo Bongo

Congo Bongo is the Atari 2600 version of Sega's 1983 arcade game, in which a safari hunter chases a mischievous gorilla up a mountain and across a jungle river. Sega published the cartridge in 1983, and it was…

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Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own 1982 arcade shooter. The camera sits behind your fighter as it skims low over the surface of Planet Zoom, threading through electron posts, before…

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Up’n Down

Up'n Down is the Atari 2600 version of Sega's 1983 arcade game, published by Sega for the console in 1984. You drive a little dune buggy, the "Baja Bugger" in the manual, along a winding road packed with…

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Thunderground

Thunderground is a 1983 Atari 2600 cartridge from Sega, programmed by Jeff Lorenz. You drive a digging vehicle called a core capsule through the earth, tunnelling towards six enemy bases while two tanks hunt you through the passages…

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Tac-Scan

Tac-Scan is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own vector-graphics arcade shooter from 1982. Instead of one ship, you steer a whole squadron flying in formation, and every ship you lose makes the formation smaller. The home…

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Tapper

Tapper puts you behind the counter as a bartender trying to keep four busy bars supplied with drinks. It is the Atari 2600 version of Bally Midway's 1984 arcade game, converted by Beck-Tech and published by Sega later…

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Sub-Scan

Sub-Scan is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 version of its own 1979 arcade game Deep Scan. You command a destroyer on the surface and drop depth charges on enemy submarines cruising at different depths below you. It is simple…

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Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator is Sega's 1983 Atari 2600 conversion of its own Star Trek arcade game, programmed by Jeff Lorenz. You command the USS Enterprise, fight Klingon cruisers, dock with starbases to repair and rearm, and…

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