Winter Games
Winter Games is the Atari 7800 version of Epyx's 1985 winter sports game, released by Atari in 1988. Up to eight players pick a country and go for medals in the biathlon, speed skating, ski jump and bobsled,…
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The Atari 2600 was more than ten years old in 1988, yet new cartridges kept coming, mostly from Atari Corporation, Activision and Absolute Entertainment. Activision released the arcade conversion Commando in June and Dan Kitchen’s River Raid II in November, which adds altitude to the original’s fuel-juggling river run. Absolute’s Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator crams an unusual number of cockpit instruments onto the screen.
Atari’s own games on this page are mostly sports and racing: Doug Neubauer’s Super Football, Bob Polaro’s Sprint Master and Super Baseball, a reworked RealSports Baseball. Dark Chambers is a maze shooter based on Dandy, the computer game that inspired Gauntlet. Crack’ed is an unreleased prototype, Defender II is Stargate under a new name, and Froggo’s Sea Hawk and Task Force are re-releases of older games. The PAL-only compilation 32 in 1 is listed here as well.
Dark Chambers is filed under 1988, but Atari Archive dates it to May 1989.
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Donkey Kong Junior
Donkey Kong Junior is the Atari 7800 version of Nintendo's 1982 arcade game, published by Atari Corporation in 1988. This time Mario is the villain: he has caged Donkey Kong, and the ape's son must climb vines and…
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Impossible Mission
Impossible Mission is the Atari 7800 version of Epyx's 1984 Commodore 64 game, released by Atari Corporation. As a secret agent you search the robot-guarded rooms of Professor Elvin Atombender's base for pieces of a password, against the…
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Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator AKA Dan Kitchen’s Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator
Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator is a late Atari 2600 flight game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Absolute Entertainment. You fly an F-14 from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise: launch from the catapult, hunt enemy fighters…
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Task Force
Task Force is a shooting-gallery game for the Atari 2600, released by Froggo in the late 1980s. It is not a new game: it is Spectravision's 1983 cartridge Gangster Alley with a new title and a new story.…
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Super Baseball
Super Baseball is a baseball game that Atari Corporation released for the 2600 late in the console's life; the manual is dated 1988. It is a reworked edition of Atari's earlier RealSports Baseball from 1982, with bug fixes…
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Super Football
Super Football is an American football game that Atari Corporation released for the 2600 in 1988, long after the console's peak years. It was programmed by Doug Neubauer, who also made Solaris and Radar Lock for the system.…
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Sprint Master
Sprint Master is a top-down racing game that Atari released for the 2600 in 1988, late in the console's life. It was programmed by Bob Polaro. One or two players race tiny cars around a choice of tracks,…
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