Most Popular Atari 2600 Games - Page 4
King Kong
1982
King Kong
1982
star 8Rescue the lady from King Kong's clutches atop the Empire State Building. You must climb to the top of the building while avoiding (jumping) the bombs King Kong is throwing at you. The quicker you save her, the greater the bonus.Rush Hour
2003
Rush Hour
2003
star 6You are speeding along on a five lane highway during rush hour dodging several obstacles like nails, barricades or destroyed cars. Your mission is to destroy the perpetrators causing traffic jams in blasting them off the street. Collisions of any sort will slow you down and eventually cause your car to break down. The game was set for a 1983 release but was ultimately cancelled. In 2003, however, the CGE Services Corp. acquired the rights and released it at the Classic Gaming Expo in 2003.Stronghold
1983
Stronghold
1983
star 6On one of your patrols in deep space you encounter an abandoned base whose self-defense mechanisms are still functional. Upon detecting your presence the base launches several drones to destroy you. After having conquered three of these attack waves a force field containing of three layers will form at the bottom auf the screen protecting a SAM crawler. Your objctive now ist to shoot a gap into the horizontally moving force field in order to eliminate the SAM crawler while still being under attack by hostile drones. As soon as you breached the force field you have to pay attention not being shot down by the SAM crawler which will exploit the fact of you destroying the force field. The game comes with 16 game variations, some of them allowing you to use rapid fire while others make the attack drones invincible for your missiles or produce drones which clone themselves. Still some variants create a force field which will descend from above and is minimzing the space you are able to move in.Miner 2049er
1983
Super Cobra
1983
Popeye
1983
Activision Prototype #1
Quickly line up all the colored squares in each row and arrange them in the right pattern in this fast-paced early prototype from Activision. This game wasn't rediscovered until 1998. Little is known about it, including its title and the identity of the programmer.Space Attack
1982
Space Attack
1982
Mattel’s MO was to make, slightly inferior perhaps, ports of their Intellivision games and release them on the 2600 to entice people over to the Intellivision. Most of the games Mattel ported were simple shooters that didn’t require much use of the Intellivision’s keypad controller space battle which was renamed space attack on the 2600 is the major exception. Space battle used eleven of the twelve keypad buttons and somehow that all had to be condensed into a single button controller.Tank Mission
1983
Jawbreaker
1982
Jawbreaker
1982
Atari 2600 Port of "Jawbreaker". Because of technical limitations, Atari 2600 Jawbreaker is not a Pac-Man clone and is different than the Atari 8-bit game. A rough sketch of the 2600 game was used as the basis for new computer versions from programmers other than Harris. The new game was, confusingly, sold as both Jawbreaker and Jawbreaker II and was not as successful as the original.Dark Chambers
1989
Lady Bug Arcade
2021
Lady Bug Arcade
2021
It's dinnertime and Lady Bug is hungry! Guide her around the garden collecting flowers and hearts while avoiding the deadly insects trying to make *her* their dinner! Luckily, the garden is equipped with many revolving doors that the lady bug can use to block the enemy's attack or steer them into the deadly poison. Scattered throughout the scene are letters that can be used to spell EXTRA for a bonus lady bug or SPECIAL for a visit to the VEGGIE BOUNTY and a chance to feast in the all-you -can-eat harvest! GOOD LUCK!Punch Chess
2023
Coarse Blade
2022
Coarse Blade
2022
Terror reigns in The Old Kingdom. An evil sorcerer is ruling the land. Then one day, he is challenged by a barbarian Knight who is traveling from a foreign land to seek fame and fortune. You take control of the brave knight as you decide the fate of the Kingdom in this all-new Atari 2600 game. Fight your way through the forest and conquer the three castles he occupies to overthrow the evil sorcerer and become the new king.Fish
Fish is an unreleased Atari 2600 game that was developed by Mike Albaugh in 1983. A prototype of the game was discovered in January 2025.Zoo Keeper
2021
Zoo Keeper
2021
This is a Homebrew port of the original Zoo Keeper from the arcade for the Atari 2600 by Champ Games.Mappy
2020
Misterious Thief
1983
Phantom Tank
1983
