Release date: 2008

This page lists two games filed under 2008. Rick Skrbina’s homebrew Vong plays like Pong turned on its side, with the paddles at the top and bottom of the screen. Actionauts is much older: Rob Fulop, the programmer of Demon Attack, stopped work on it in 1984, so it is an unfinished but fully playable prototype. Instead of steering a hero, you write a short program for a robot and watch it look for cheese in a maze.
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Vong

Vong is a 2008 Atari 2600 homebrew by Rick Skrbina. It plays like Pong, but the court is turned 90 degrees, so the paddles sit at the top and bottom of the screen and the ball travels up…

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Actionauts

Actionauts is an unreleased Atari 2600 puzzle game by Rob Fulop, the programmer of Demon Attack and the 2600 Missile Command. Instead of steering a hero directly, you write a short program for a little robot and then…

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