Atari 5200 Games (Oldest First)

Star Raiders

This 3D spaceflight combat game helped launch the genre

Rescue on Fractalus!

Rescue on Fractalus was first released in 1985 for various home computers and is one of the first games released by Lucasfilm Games (later LucasArts).

Super Breakout

Use the Paddle to keep the ball going to get the high score.

Mr. Do!'s Castle

Mr. Do!'s Castle (alternatively called Mr. Do! vs. Unicorns) is the sequel to 1982's Mr. Do!

Centipede

Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.

Quest for Quintana Roo

Galaxian

Battle space aliens and avoid their suicidal attacks to survive in the world of Galaxian, Namco's first installment in the Galaxian franchise. It was a technica...

John Anderson's Rally Speedway

A top-down car racing game written by John Anderson in which the players can drive either through two provided courses or construct their own ones with the offe...

Dig Dug

Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you cre...

Castle Blast

Boulder Dash

Boulder Dash is a vintage maze puzzler in which players collect diamonds before time runs out.

RealSports Baseball

The baseball entry in Atari's RealSports series.

Crystal Castles

Classic arcade game where you, as Bentley Bear, must collect gems while avoiding enemies.

Berzerk

Berzerk is an arcade game released in 1980 in which the player must escape a maze filled with evil robots.

Missile Command

Missile Command is a classic arcade game in which players must delay their inevitable annihilation by destroying a barrage of incoming missiles.

Boulderdash II: Rockford's Revenge

Congo Bongo

An arcade title developed by Sega that is very similar to classic arcade games of the time.

Pengo

An early maze-action game developed by Coreland and published by Sega. The player controls a penguin named Pengo and must push ice blocks to eliminate the Sno-B...

Keystone Kapers

Catch the criminals before they get away

H.E.R.O.

Fly down into dangerous caves filled with bugs, lava, and other traps to save your buddy before you run out of health.

Montezuma's Revenge

A platformer that features treasure hunting and puzzle solving.

Adventure II

Space Invaders

Space Invaders, released in arcades by Taito in 1978, is one of the most influential and successful video games of all time, laying the foundations for most sho...

Bounty Bob Strikes Back!

Bounty Bob Strikes Back is a sequel to Miner 2049er and has nearly identical gameplay.

Defender

Players must destroy waves of UFOs while saving abductees in this classic shoot 'em up

QIX

Carve up the inside of the playfield while dodging the titular Qix in this 1981 arcade game by Taito's American division.

Ms. Pac-Man

A sequel to the arcade classic featuring Pac-Man's feminine counterpart. The game is notable for having a variety of mazes as opposed to the single maze design ...

James Bond 007

James Bond 007 is a side-scrolling action game developed by Parker Brothers, and released in 1983. Players control Bond's car to clear four movie inspired stage...

Bristles

Zenji

Players attempt to form a completely connected maze by rotating sections of the maze in the correct direction.

Pac-Man

One of the most popular arcade games of all time, Pac-Man was released in arcades in 1980 and became a pop culture icon for the decade.

Mr. Cool

Players hop around a pyramid of plates to change their colors in this Q*Bert-inspired game from Sierra.

Zone Ranger

Zone Ranger is a top down space shooter where you encounter satellites, asteroids, robots and other enemies.

Kaboom!

Kaboom! is a fast-paced action game, where the player must successfully catch bombs in a series of three stacked buckets.

K-Razy Shootout

K-Razy Shootout is a Berzerk clone originally produced for Atari 8-bit machines.

BC's Quest for Tires

Thor, star of the popular comic strip B.C., must save his girlfriend Cute Chick from a dinosaur with nothing but his trusty prehistoric unicycle and quick refle...

Zaxxon

Zaxxon is an arcade shooter developed by Sega, along with assistance from Ikegami Tsushinki. When it was first released, Zaxxon's isometric projection was consi...

Megamania

Megamania is an Atari 2600 game released in 1982 by Activision. Its TV ads featured an original song by The Tubes.

Pitfall!

Pitfall! has been holding it down as the grandfather of the modern day platformer since its release in 1982. The premise of the game is to avoid falling down pi...

Pole Position

The first 16-bit video game, Pole Position was responsible for popularizing third-person psuedo-3D graphics and racing games as a whole.

River Raid

First released by Activision for the Atari 2600, River Raid is one of the first scrolling shooters ever made. Controlling a rogue fighter jet, players must dest...

Super Cobra

Infiltrate the enemy base and make off with a big box of cash in this helicopter-based shooter from the makers of Scramble.

Moon Patrol

Drive a six-wheeled rover as you traverse the surface of the moon, jumping over holes and gunning down enemy ships.

Robotron: 2084

Save the last human family and blast as many robots as you can in this classic dual-joystick shooter from Williams Electronics.

Jungle Hunt

Taito side-scroller released for arcades in 1982 and for the Atari 2600 in 1983, is a modified version of Jungle King. A three phase platformer that puts the pl...

Kangaroo

Fully featured rescue-oriented platformer reminiscent of games like Donkey Kong and Popeye, which includes the ability to PUNCH MONKEYS!!

Space Shuttle: A Journey into Space

Vanguard

Vanguard is a scrolling shooter that allows players to shoot in multiple directions in space. The player spends their time avoiding obstacles and shooting enemi...

Joust

Joust is an arcade game that was released in 1982 by Williams Electronics. It features a knight using a lance while riding on an ostrich.

Frogger

Frogger is a classic arcade game with a simple objective: safely maneuver your frog across a busy highway and a deadly river without getting squished!

Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

Originally released as Zoom 909 in Japan, the Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom arcade game is a forward-scrolling, pseudo-3D, third-person rail shooter, released by ...

RealSports Football

Blue Print

Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

Pitfall II is a wide-open platforming adventure that's much larger than its predecessor, with advanced features including save points and non-linear level desig...

Gorf

Gorf is a multi-mission fixed shooter featuring five screens. Each of these five missions has its own distinct enemies and rules of play.

Clowns & Balloons

A clone of 1977's "Circus" by DataSoft.

Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Final Legacy

Countermeasure

Popeye

Popeye must win the love of Olive Oyl in three different scenarios while avoiding the nasty Bluto. His main weapon against this relentless brute are the cans of...

Miner 2049er

Control Bounty Bob as he avoids mutants and attempts to catch Yukon Yohan in this classic platformer.

The Activision Decathlon

This Activision game features the 10 track & field events used to determine "The World's Greatest Athlete" every four years in the Olympics.

Koffi: Yellow Kopter

In this game, players must rescue little animals and douse fires.

Gremlins

A video game adaption of the popular movie. Players have to capture all of the Mogwai.

Haunted House II 3D

The Dreadnaught Factor

The Facts Say It's Impossible... For Your Planet, It's Imperative!

Beamrider

David Rolfe's frantic into-the-screen space blaster.

Mountain King

A pseudo survival-horror 2600 game that is known as one of the most difficult 2600 games in existence.

Klax

Players organize blocks of the same color to make them disappear.

Combat II Advanced

Atlantis

Released in 1982, Imagic's Atlantis aimed to build upon what the classic game Missile Command started.

A.E.

RealSports Soccer

Castle Crisis

Homebrew port of the arcade game Warlords, where up to four players must defend their castles from fireballs.

RealSports Tennis

Claim Jumper

Beef Drop

Form the perfect burger by standing on the ingredients and dropping them to the plates below.

Choplifter!

Originally developed by Dan Gorlin of Brøderbund, Choplifter!, which claims to be the computer! game of the year, focuses on the simple mechanics of avoiding f...

Astro Chase

Wizard of Wor

Fantasy shooter where players clear maze-like dungeons of monsters

Gyruss

Gyruss is a space shoot 'em up that allows player to revolve around an implicit circle. It is often considered to be a cross between Tempest and Galaga.

Space Dungeon

Space Dungeon is an early dual-joystick shooter, first an arcade game and later ported to the Atari 5200.

Donkey Kong Jr.

When Mario finally defeats and captures Donkey Kong, it is up to Donkey Kong's son, Donkey Kong Junior, to rescue him.

Ballblazer

Ballblazer is one of the first two games released in 1985 by the Lucasfilm Computer Division Games Group, later LucasArts.

Mario Bros.

Nintendo's classic arcade hit. Players attempt to eliminate enemies while avoiding fireballs and collecting coins.

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - Death Star Battle

The Star Wars game based loosely on the events of Return of the Jedi. You are sent in to destroy the rebuilding of the dreaded Death Star.

Meteorites

Frogger II: Threeedeep!

Take to the skies in this home-only sequel to Frogger.

Q*Bert

Q*Bert's goal is to hop around an isometric pyramid structure in order to change all the colors of the pyramid's surfaces to the same color.

Chicken

An action game from 1982 by Synapse Software.

Root Beer Tapper

Players serve root beer as fast as they can to all the demanding customers.

Attack of the Mutant Camels

Attack of the Mutant Camels (AKA Advance of the Megacamel) was developed by Llamasoft. The game is very similar to the 2600 version of Star Wars: The Empire Str...

Star Wars

Gun down TIE Fighters, shoot the tips off of towers, and blow up the Death Star in this vector-graphics Star Wars arcade game.

Looney Tunes Hotel

Looney Tunes Hotel was a nearly completed video game that was going to be released for the Atari 5200. Players were to play on a set of hotels, but Atari never ...

5200 Menu

A extra-rare prototype cartridge. Only one is known to exist.

Madden Football

Long before EA's reign on the football circuit, CBS was working on a multiplatform title with John Madden.

Hopman

A platformer released for multiple retro computer systems and consoles.