Release date: 1983

Omega Race

Omega Race, a shoot ’em up arcade game developed by Ron Haliburton and released by Midway in 1981, was later adapted for the Atari 2600 by CBS Electronics. Unique among CBS’s Atari 2600 games, Omega Race includes an extra 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature marketed as “RAM Plus.” Set in 2003, … Read more

Oscar’s Trash Race

Oscar’s Trash Race is an educational Sesame Street video game developed by the Children’s Computer Workshop and Atari for the Atari 2600 (Atari VCS) in 1983. The game is designed to teach young players basic counting and number recognition skills. In the game, players control Oscar the Grouch as he collects trash from the street. … Read more

Moon Patrol

Moon Patrol, developed and released by Irem in 1982, is an arcade video game where the player takes on the role of a Luna City police officer assigned to Sector Nine. Players control a Moon buggy that travels over the Moon’s surface, viewed from the side as it moves toward the right. The objective is … Read more