River Raid II
River Raid II is Activision's 1988 sequel to River Raid, designed by Dan Kitchen and programmed at Imagineering. You fly an F-14 from an aircraft carrier, cross the sea to a river delta, destroy an enemy bridge and…
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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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Pete Rose Baseball
Pete Rose Baseball is a baseball game for the Atari 2600 from Absolute Entertainment, designed by Alex DeMeo and released near the end of the console's life, around 1988–89. Instead of the usual top-down diamond, it shows pitching…
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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 launch an F-14 from an aircraft carrier, fight enemy jets with guns and missiles, and then…
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Defender II
Defender II is Atari's Atari 2600 version of Stargate, the 1981 arcade sequel to Defender designed by Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar and released by Williams. The 2600 cartridge, programmed by Bill Aspromonte with sound by Andrew Fuchs,…
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Dark Chambers
Dark Chambers is a top-down maze shooter published by Atari in 1988 for the Atari 2600, and also released for the Atari 7800. It is a reworked version of Dandy, a 1983 Atari 8-bit computer game that John…
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