Publisher: Tigervision

Tigervision was the video game label of the toy company Tiger Electronics. Its first 2600 cartridge, King Kong, came out in August 1982, and most of its later games were conversions of existing titles. Several came from the computer library of On-Line Systems, the company later known as Sierra: Jawbreaker, Marauder and Threshold. Others were arcade licences from Taito and Orca, and Big Five Software’s Miner 2049er became two cartridges.
Tigervision’s last games, River Patrol and Espial, arrived in 1984 as the North American market was collapsing, so few copies reached the shops, and several of its cartridges are rare today. The site has ten of them, including:

Jawbreaker (1982): John Harris’s candy-factory maze game, redesigned for the 2600.
Miner 2049er (1983): Bounty Bob claims every floor of an abandoned uranium mine.
Threshold (1982): a wave shooter that lets you fly up and down as well as sideways.
Polaris: Taito’s submarine arcade game, with a mined channel between waves.
King Kong (1982): climb the Empire State Building past Kong’s bombs.
River Patrol (1984): pull drowning people out of a river full of logs and alligators.

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River Patrol

River Patrol is Tigervision's 1984 Atari 2600 version of a 1981 arcade game by the Japanese company Orca. You steer a leaky patrol boat up a dangerous river, pulling drowning people out of the water while dodging logs,…

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Threshold

Threshold is a space shooter that Tigervision released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It is a conversion of Warren Schwader's 1981 Apple II game from On-Line Systems, the company later known as Sierra. Waves of six alien…

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Springer

Springer is a single-screen platform game released by Tigervision for the Atari 2600. You play a rabbit hopping from cloud to cloud towards the sun, picking up objects and dealing with eggs that hatch into dragons if you…

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Polaris

Polaris is Tigervision's Atari 2600 version of Taito's 1980 arcade game of the same name. You command a nuclear submarine deep in enemy waters, firing missiles up at bomber squadrons while dodging bombs, enemy subs and depth charges.…

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Miner 2049er

Miner 2049er is a platform game in which Bounty Bob, a mountie, explores an abandoned uranium mine full of mutant creatures. The game was created by Bill Hogue of Big Five Software, and this Atari 2600 cartridge was…

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Miner 2049er II

Miner 2049er II (the manual calls it Miner 2049er Volume II) is Tigervision's second Bounty Bob cartridge for the Atari 2600, based on Bill Hogue's game for Big Five Software. It works like the first Miner 2049er cartridge:…

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Marauder

Marauder is a 1982 maze shooter published for the Atari 2600 by Tigervision. It began as a computer game from On-Line Systems (the company later known as Sierra On-Line), and the 2600 version was programmed by Rorke Weigandt.…

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King Kong

King Kong is a 1982 climbing game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Karl T. Olinger and released in August 1982 as the first cartridge from Tigervision. Kong has carried a girl to the top of the Empire…

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Jawbreaker

Jawbreaker is a 1982 maze game for the Atari 2600, programmed by John Harris and published by Tigervision. You steer a set of chomping jaws through a candy factory, dodging smiling faces. The 2600 version is a different…

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Espial

Espial is a space shooter for the Atari 2600, released by Tigervision in 1984. It is a home version of a 1983 arcade game by Orca, the company behind River Patrol. You fly a small fighter over a…

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