Immies and Aggies is an unreleased prototype for the Atari 2600, featuring a unique shooting game that involves marbles. Immies and Aggies are types of marbles, with Aggies being agate marbles and Immies being glass imitations of agates. However, the game graphics primarily consist of squares, which might not clearly represent marbles. The objective of … Read more
Joust, an action game developed by Williams Electronics, was first released in arcades in 1982 and later published by Atari under the Atarisoft label for Atari 2600 in 1983. Joust popularized the concept of two-player cooperative video games due to its success and polished implementation. In Joust, the player controls a yellow knight riding a … Read more
Licensed by Taito Jungle Hunt gameplay ungle Hunt, an Atari 2600 game, is divided into four distinct scenes, each with its own objectives and challenges: Subsequent gameplay repeats the scenes, but with increased difficulty. In rounds other than the first, a cannibal appears in the tree during the cauldron scene, throwing spears at the player. … Read more
It’s a prototype.
Kamikaze Saucers is an unreleased Atari 2600 shooter game in which players control an unusually shaped ship to shoot down saucers that fly across the screen. The objective is to destroy these saucers before they initiate their kamikaze attacks. If players don’t shoot the saucers down quickly enough, the saucers will engage in kamikaze mode … Read more
Kangaroo is a four-screen platform game for Atari 2600, featuring a mother kangaroo wearing boxing gloves trying to save her joey from fruit-throwing monkeys. The game doesn’t have a dedicated jump button; instead, players push the joystick up or up-diagonally to jump. The game consists of four distinct levels. In levels 1, 2, and 4, … Read more
Grover’s Music Maker was originally called Monkey Music and featured a dancing monkey instead of Grover. Grover’s Music Maker was an attempt by Atari to introduce children to the music through some well known (and some not so well known) children’s tunes. The game was shown at the Winter 1983 Winter CES. It’s unknown why … Read more
Halloween is a horror video game for the Atari 2600. Although the game was called Halloween, and featured the film’s theatrical poster as its cover art as well as the movie’s main music theme, the game itself never refers to any characters, including the killer, by their names in the film. Halloween gameplay Players take … Read more