Zellers was a Canadian department store chain, not a game developer. It sold a group of Taiwanese-made Atari 2600 cartridges under its own titles, and most of them were unlicensed copies of games by Activision, Imagic, Atari and others, sold without the original publishers’ permission. The game inside each one is usually the original with little or nothing changed. The site has nine of these cartridges, including:
Ocean City Defender: Imagic’s Atlantis with a few cosmetic changes.
Dragon Treasure: a copy of Imagic’s Dragonfire.
Busy Police: Activision’s Keystone Kapers under a new name.
Earth Attack: Atari’s Defender, with only a few dozen bytes changed.
Farmer Dan: a copy of U.S. Games’ Gopher.
Laser Volley: Imagic’s Laser Gates.
The list also holds Space Adventure (Flash Gordon), Radar (Sancho’s Exocet) and Inca Gold. Play any of them below in your browser.
Space Adventure is a renamed release of Flash Gordon, the Atari 2600 shooter that David Lubar designed at Sirius Software for 20th Century Fox. This version was sold under the name of Zellers, the Canadian department store chain,…
Play ▸Ocean City Defender is an unlicensed copy of Imagic's 1982 shooter Atlantis, sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain. Like the other Zellers cartridges, it was made in Taiwan and given a new name. The game…
Play ▸Laser Volley is an unlicensed copy of Imagic's 1983 shooter Laser Gates, sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain. The game itself is Dan Oliver's work: you fly the Dante Dart through the tunnels of a…
Play ▸Farmer Dan is an unlicensed copy of Gopher, the 1983 U.S. Games cartridge designed by Sylvia Day. It was sold in Canada by Zellers, a discount department store chain, as one of a group of Taiwanese-made 2600 cartridges…
Play ▸Dragon Treasure is an unlicensed copy of Dragonfire, the 1982 Imagic game by Bob Smith. This NTSC cartridge was sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain, one of several Taiwanese-made 2600 games that Zellers carried under…
Play ▸Earth Attack is an unlicensed copy of Atari's 1982 Atari 2600 version of Defender, the side-scrolling shooter converted from the Williams arcade game by Bob Polaro. It was sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain under…
Play ▸Busy Police is an unlicensed copy of Activision's 1983 chase game Keystone Kapers, designed by Garry Kitchen. It was made in Taiwan and sold in Canada by the Zellers department store chain, under a new name and without…
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