Publisher: Telesys
Telesys was a small company in Fremont, California, that released six Atari 2600 games under the slogan “Fun in games”. It hoped to grow into a full software house for home computers, but it went out of business during the video game crash of 1983, and its cartridges ended up in bargain bins. The site has all six:
Fast Food (1982): a giant pair of lips gobbles flying burgers and fries. It became the company’s best-known game and won a Certificate of Merit for humour at the Arkie Awards.
Stargunner: Alex Leavens’ Defender-style shooter with smooth scrolling.
Ram It: blast back colour bars closing in from both sides, with a musical note for every hit.
Cosmic Creeps (1982): rescue the Cosmic Kids from a planet falling out of orbit.
Demolition Herby: a demolition-derby twist on Amidar.
Coconuts.
Don Ruffcorn programmed Fast Food, Cosmic Creeps and Demolition Herby. Pick one below and play it in your browser.
Stargunner
Stargunner is a horizontally scrolling space shooter for the Atari 2600, designed by Alex Leavens and published by the small Californian company Telesys. It plays much like Defender without the people to rescue: you fly back and forth…
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Demolition Herby
Demolition Herby is a 1983 Atari 2600 game from Telesys, a small publisher in Fremont, California, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. You steer Herby, a little green car, around a grid of white lines, painting them red to black…
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Cosmic Creeps
Cosmic Creeps is a 1982 Atari 2600 game from Telesys, a small Californian publisher, programmed by Don Ruffcorn. A planet is falling out of orbit, and you have to fly an Orbinaut up to a space station and…
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