Release date: 1983

Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-ups

Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-Ups, released in 1983, is a puzzle video game for the Atari 2600, developed and published by Parker Brothers. Players are challenged to reassemble scrambled Strawberryland characters within a specified time limit, as indicated by Mr. Sun moving eastward at the top of the screen. When a character is correctly pieced together, … Read more

Spacemaster X-7

In 1958, a horror science fiction film called “Space Master X-7” was released in the United States. Around twenty-five years later, in 1983, Fox’s video game publishing division announced a Space Master X-7 video game for the Atari 2600. The game was not based on the original film, as the programmer behind the project, David … Read more

Spitfire Attack

In the Atari 2600 game Spitfire Attack, players assume the role of an American fighter pilot. The objective is to take down enemy aircraft, target enemy ammunition depots (resembling small black houses), and destroy enemy anti-aircraft guns (which appear somewhat like sundials). Players must avoid flying too low, or they’ll receive a low altitude warning; … Read more

Springer

In Springer for the Atari 2600, you take on the role of Springer the rabbit. Your objective is to hop from one cloud to another, gathering everything you can in order to reach the sun. To collect items or eggs, simply jump onto the clouds they’re on. If an egg hatches into a dragon, you … Read more

Squoosh

An unplayable demo, never got past the early prototype stage.

Snoopy and the Red Baron

Snoopy and the Red Baron is an Atari 2600 shoot ’em up game featuring the Peanuts character Snoopy and his aerial adversary, the Red Baron. It is a single-player game in which players guide Snoopy on his doghouse through four difficulty levels. The objective is to shoot down the Red Baron using the stick to … Read more

Solar Fox

Solar Fox is an arcade game developed by Bally/Midway in 1981 and later ported to the Atari 2600 in 1983. In the game, players control a starship with the objective of navigating through a series of solar cell matrixes within racks. The goal is to capture all the cells in each matrix while avoiding fireballs … Read more