Release date: 2000

By 2000 hobbyists were writing new Atari 2600 games, and labels such as XYPE released them on real cartridges. This page holds one of them: Thrust, Thomas Jentzsch’s version of Jeremy C. Smith’s 1986 gravity game for the BBC Micro. You steer a small ship through underground caverns, fighting gravity and inertia while you tow a heavy pod back into space.
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Thrust

Thrust is a modern homebrew game for the Atari 2600, written by Thomas Jentzsch and released on cartridge by XYPE in 2000. It brings Jeremy C. Smith's gravity game, first published by Superior Software for the BBC Micro…

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