Most Popular Atari 2600 Games - Page 19
Racquetball
1981
Racquetball
1981
To serve, press the red button. You hit the ball by moving your player to where the shadow of the ball is about level with your feet. The racquet will swing automatically. When you serve, the ball must hit the front wall before it hits the floor. Your opponent can then hit the ball before it lands on the floor or he can let it bounce but you can only let it bounce once. It cannot bounce twice. You serve every time until you miss. If you are serving and your opponent misses, you get one point. You can only get points on rounds where you serve. First player to twenty-one points, wins.Return to Haunted House
2005
Homebrew sequel to the 2600 classic, that was included later on official Atari compilations such as Atari Flashback 2 and Atari's Greatest Hits.Elevators Amiss
2007
Elevators Amiss
2007
In Elevators Amiss you are a maid working in a hotel gone crazy! Normally the night shift is pretty uneventful, but tonight the hotel's elevators have taken on a life of their own! You need to get to the top of the hotel, but the elevators are simply not an option. To get to the top floor you will need to race along each floor of the building to the stairs while avoiding the out-of-control elevators! And when you do reach the top, you're work isn't done as you need to tackle the next hotel, also suffering the same problem!Smash Hit Pak
HES collects four Activision games plus Frogger onto one cartridge for Atari 2600.Hot Action Pak
Three Activision games on one Atari 2600 cartridge, bundled with a copy of River Raid.Space Tunnel
1983
Space Tunnel
1983
Space Tunnel is an action game developed by Bit Corp. and released on Atari 2600. In Space Tunnel\Space Robot you fly at hyper speed to an unknown galaxy's center and encounter strange creatures.Bridge
1980
Bridge
1980
Bridge is a computerized bridge game for one player. The computer controls both your partner and your opponents, either of which can be set to an expert or novice skill level. In the novice game, you will be able to see your partners hand while bidding while in the expert game your partners hand remains hidden. For each game, you can choose to play to either 13, 21, 25, or 29 points. After a hand is finished, you have the option of replaying the same hand if you want to practice, or you can have the computer deal a new hand. If you don't like the way a hand is going, you have the option of restarting the hand to try again. Included with the game instructions is a complete guide to how your computer partner will bid in different situations in order to help you form your strategy. Bridge was designed for people who already know how to play the game, it won't teach you how to play.Brain Games
1978
Brain Games
1978
In Brain Games one or two players attempt to earn as many points as possible by solving various puzzles presented by the computer.Submarine Commander
1982
Submarine Commander
1982
You're the commander of a submarine in enemy waters. Use your skills, radar, and luck to take down the enemy ships. With 8 difficulty settings there is a lot of the game to master as you must start to keep an eye on your fuel, torpedoes, radar, and enemy while avoiding depth charges as the difficulty rises. You can fire up to two torpedoes at a time. While enemy shows go by your periscope sink as many as you can. The periscope can turn 360 degrees and look off into the horizon or close to your sub. Some ships move slower than others, and one of the ships moves so fast that the only way to hit it is by tracking it by radar instead of visually. This game was never released under any name by Atari. It was a Sears exclusive.Othello
1981
Othello
1981
Othello is a conversion of the board game. Each player tries to fill the game board with as many discs of his color as possible. On each turn the player places a disc on the board by selecting a location where the opponents discs will become trapped between two of his discs. The trapped discs are flipped over to the players color. The game ends when the board is filled or time runs out, and the player with the greatest number of his color discs on the board wins. Two players can play against each other, or one player against the computer.Basic Programming
1979
Basic Programming
1979
Basic Programming attempted to teach simple computer programming on the Atari 2600. It was released in 1979, and it was one of only a few non-gaming cartridges ever designed for the 2600. The programming language was superficially similar to dialects of BASIC, but differed in many important aspects. The extremely small RAM size of the Atari 2600, 128 bytes, severely restricted the possibilities of this cartridge for writing programs.Ground Zero
1983
Dishaster
1982
Dishaster
1982
Dishaster is an action game released for the Atari 2600 in 1983 by Zimag. Another version of the game was released by Bit Corporation under the name Dancing Plates which features oriental-themed graphics and adds eight game variations. Dishaster was inspired by the circus tradition of keeping spinning plates suspended on poles. The player controls a girl attempting to keep a group of several spinning plates balanced on poles from falling. The game received negative reviews; criticism focused on the game's repetition and monotony. The girl can stabilize wobbling dishes by pressing the button on the controller. If a plate falls, the player is able to capture it if the girl touches it before it hits the ground, and a new one appears at the top of the pole. The number of poles to spin varies between the selected skill level; there are six on the easiest setting, and ten on the hardest. The player loses if they let four dishes hit the groundTom Boy
1982
Tom Boy
1982
Tom Boy is a complete copy of the game Pitfall, which was released the same year by Activision. It replicates not only the lack of story but every other aspect of the original as well. The clone is so bold that it outright steals the entire gameplay, sprites, and animations. At Quelle, Rainbow Vision’s audaciousness (original title Tom Boy) didn’t seem to deter anyone, as the game was included in their German Atari catalog that same year under the title Dschungel Boy.Fisher Price
1983
Skeleton
2002
Skeleton
2002
"You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike," certainly describes the situation you are in. You hear faint footsteps, so you follow the sound through the maze. To your horror, you discover the source of the footsteps is a skeleton; and it doesn't look friendly. Acting quickly, you blast it with your undead Disintegrator and the skeleton vanishes in a flash of color, but as you reload your UD, you hear footsteps again; and you wonder; are you the hunter of the hunted in this nightmare?Space Robot
1983
Space Robot
1983
This game is a clone of Missile Command, originally developed by Atari. The main difference between Space Robot and Missile Command is instead of shooting oncoming missiles, you are shooting falling robots.
