Publisher: Spectravision

Spectravision was the video game label of the American company Spectravideo. It was founded in 1981 by Harry Fox and Alex Weiss as a games publisher that hired outside developers, and in late 1982 it changed its name to Spectravideo because a hotel TV service already used the Spectravision name. The company later moved on to home computers, and some later cartridges, such as Gas Hog, already carry the new name in the manual.
Spectravision’s 2600 games are small, quirky ideas rather than arcade conversions, and several are rare today, partly because some seem to have been sold mainly in Canada. The site has twelve of them, including the PAL release Super Baumeister. A few to start with:

Mangia’ (1983): eat your mother’s pasta, or slip it to the pets when she isn’t looking.
Master Builder (1983): study a blueprint for five seconds, then build it from memory.
Chase the Chuck Wagon (1983): a mail-order maze game made to promote Ralston Purina’s dog food.
Gangster Alley: a shooting gallery in which you must spare the hostages.
Tapeworm (1982): a Surround-style worm game with a beetle, a spider and a bird.
Bumper Bash (1983): a one-screen pinball table played with paddle controllers.

The list also includes China Syndrome, Planet Patrol, Gas Hog, Cross Force and Challenge of Nexar. Choose any of them below and play it in your browser.

Cross Force

Overview Victory Announcement: Spectra-warriors, rejoice! The long battle against the planet Spectra’s invaders, the Morpuls, has finally ended. These foes have retreated to Tzoris, but our quest for justice isn’t over. Now, armed with our secret weapon, the…

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China Syndrome

China Syndrome is an Atari 2600 action game from Spectravision, one of the smaller third-party publishers of the early 1980s. An earthquake has damaged the nuclear reactor on Spectra Island, and in a training simulator you steer a…

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Challenge of Nexar

Atari 2600: The Challenge of Nexar Instruction Manual For Atari and Sears Video Game Systems Welcome to a journey beyond the realms of known galaxies and the constraints of time, to the crucible of inner strength and future…

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Chase the Chuck Wagon

Chase the Chuck Wagon is a 1983 promotional maze game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision for the pet food company Ralston Purina to advertise its Chuck Wagon dog food. You guide Chuckie the dog through mazes…

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Super Baumeister

Super Baumeister is the European PAL release of Spectravision's Atari 2600 game Master Builder. "Baumeister" is German for master builder, and the game itself is the same memory-and-construction puzzle: you study a blueprint, then build it brick by…

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Master Builder

Master Builder is a memory and construction game for the Atari 2600, released by Spectravideo in 1983. Each level shows you the blueprint of a building for just five seconds. Then you have to build it brick by…

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Mangia

Mangia' (Italian for "eat!") is a 1983 Atari 2600 game from Spectravideo, sold under its Spectravision label. You play a boy at the kitchen table while his mother keeps bringing plate after plate of pasta. Eat too much…

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Gangster Alley

Gangster Alley is a shooting-gallery game for the Atari 2600, published by Spectravision, the company that soon renamed itself Spectravideo. Five wanted gangsters are hiding in a building, and you move a gunsight over its windows to hit…

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Tapeworm

Tapeworm is a 1982 action game from Spectravision, a small American publisher of Atari 2600 cartridges. You steer Slinky the worm around a walled bean patch, racing a beetle to each bean while dodging a spider and a…

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Planet Patrol

Planet Patrol is an Atari 2600 shooter made and published by Spectravision, an American company that later renamed itself Spectravideo. You fly a white patrol ship low over the surface of your planet, shooting enemy craft and blowing…

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