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,…
Play ▸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 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,…
Play ▸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…
Play ▸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:…
Play ▸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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