Release date: 1990
By 1990 the Atari 2600 was close to the end of its life, and Europe mattered more to it than America. Fatal Run, at 32 KB the largest cartridge Atari ever released for the console, came out only in Europe that year; this site has the unreleased American NTSC prototype. Klax, often called the last 2600 game Atari developed and released, also appeared only in PAL form, and you can compare it with the NTSC build that was never sold. HES in Australia released the PAL-only My Golf.
In North America the last licensed games were Ikari Warriors, MotoRodeo, Sentinel and Xenophobe, although their date is disputed: Wikipedia says July 1990, while Atari Archive places them in March 1991. Sentinel is the only 2600 light gun game that was ever released. Shooting Arcade, also on this page, was made for the same light gun but never came out. Dynacom’s MegaBoy quiz cartridge from Brazil is listed here too.
Play the last cartridges of the 2600 era below, right in your browser.
Klax (PAL)
Klax is Atari's 2600 conversion of the 1990 Atari Games arcade puzzler, programmed by Steve DeFrisco. Coloured tiles tumble down a ramp, you catch them on a paddle and drop them into five bins to line up three…
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Klax (NTSC)
Klax (NTSC) is the American-format build of Atari's 2600 conversion of the Klax arcade puzzle game, programmed by Steve DeFrisco. Unlike the PAL version, it was never sold: Atari finished it in 1990 but only released the game…
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Fatal Run (Europe)
Fatal Run is a post-apocalyptic driving and shooting game made by Sculptured Software, programmed by Steve Aguirre and published by Atari. This page runs the European PAL cartridge from 1990, the only version that was ever sold in…
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