Release date: 1983

Bump ‘n’ Jump

Bump ‘n’ Jump is a vehicular combat game with an overhead perspective. Enemy vehicles include cars and trucks. Players can bump cars into obstacles or jump on them to destroy them, while trucks cannot be bumped and can only be destroyed by jumping on them. Trucks may also drop obstacles that can eliminate the player … Read more

Bumper Bash

Bumper Bash is a pinball simulation game for the Atari 2600, offering players an engaging pinball experience on the console. Players control the game using paddle controllers, with the left and right buttons operating the flippers and the plunger. To initiate gameplay, players press the right button to pull down the plunger and the left … Read more

Blue Print

Blue Print is a maze game released in September 1983 as a port for the Atari 2600. The player controls J.J., who is on a mission to save his girlfriend Daisy from Ollie Ogre. To defeat Ollie, J.J. must find all the parts of a machine he has designed, assemble it, and use it to … Read more

Battlezone

Battlezone is a first-person shooter tank combat game first released for arcades in November 1980 by Atari. It was a huge success, approximately 15,000 units sold. Battlezone was ported to Atari 2600 only in 1983. Battlezone gameplay Battlezone uses wireframe vector graphics displayed on a black and white vector monitor. A colored overlay tints the … Read more

Beamrider

Beamrider is a shooter originally written for the Intellivision in 1983. The game later was ported to the Atari 2600 with a slightly reduced feature set. Beamrider gameplay Beamrider is a game set above Earth’s atmosphere, where the objective is to clear 99 sectors of the large alien shield called the Restrictor Shield. Players control … Read more