Most Popular Atari 8 Bit Games
Boulder Dash
1984
Boulder Dash
1984
star 7.5Boulder Dash was originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers. It was developed and published by First Star Software, and spawned a series of sequels, re-releases, and spinoffs. It also did a great deal to establish and influence the mining genre of video games, which can be seen in modern games such as Minecraft, Spelunky, and Terraria.Barahir
1993
Jagdstaffel
1980
Green Paras
1987
Fighter Pilot
1983
Fidget
1986
Triumph
1994
Triumph
1994
Triumph is a Czech puzzle game for the Atari. The goal is to move the routes (#) to the marked places.Grabit
1986
Grabit
1986
Grabit is an arcade game for Atari 8-bit developed by Dave Oblad. In this game the player need to grab different colored skull to score points.Gone Fishing
1979
Gone Fishing
1979
A text based fishing simulation developed entirely in BASIC by C. W Engel and published as a type-in from the book "Stimulating Simulations".Alptraum
1987
Alptraum
1987
Alptraum is a German language graphic text adventure. It was developed by Manfred Köhler and Peter Jürgens and published by R+E Software in 1987.Tiny Mite
1982
Pong
1992
Pong
1992
Pong is a platform arcade game. The player controls a ball who has to collect five letters needed to create a password. After collecting the letters Pong will be teleported to his native land. The player moves the ball by setting the direction and strength of bouncing. Pong may use teleporters deployed on the planet. Various creatures and obstacles prevent the protagonist from completing the task.Major League Hockey
Major League Hockey is an ice hockey game. The concessions in comparison with the real game are only four (instead of five) field players and the lack of referee interventions with the exception of the offside rule. Two teams face against each other in a friendly. When the player has the puck, the available actions are to shoot towards the goal or pass to another player. Otherwise is is possible to either check the active enemy athlete or change the controlled athlete, either by automatically going to the one nearest to the puck or making an exact selection. The available options are the length of the thirds (two, five or twenty minutes) and the strength of the computer AI in three steps. The up to four (two on Atari 1200XL) players can be freely divided between the two teams.Encounter at Questar IV
The player controls a small vessel that can move in all directions, and fires a short distance directly ahead. A mobile blue alien and a stationary pink alien continuously fire towards the player, leaving a stream of deadly mines behind. The player must avoid enemy fire and mines to approach and shoot their enemies who later respawn. As gameplay progresses, more mines appear on the screen, making movement difficult. The goal is to maximize the score by shooting as many aliens before losing all 5 lives.Bio-Defense
1985
Bio-Defense
1985
The player is presented with a "scan" of an infected body - you pick one of the grid areas covering the body with the joystick and press the button to switch modes. After that you are a controlling a white blood cell that moves about a field chasing after infections. The object is to eliminate infections from the body.The Bean Machine
1983
The Bean Machine
1983
The Bean Machine is a 1-player arcade game for the 8-bit Atari Computer. The bean machine continually picks up beans from a tray on the bottom of the screen, and randomly drops beans at points throughout a maze of moving platforms, monsters, and doors. The player controls 5 platforms with pivot points in the center of the screen, and can rotate the platforms clockwise or counterclockwise. Beans will run along the platforms, and as beans move through the maze, their weight will move the platforms. If beans strike each other, one is destroyed and returns to the starting tray. The goal is to navigate all beans to the collecting tray towards the bottom. There are 3 levels of difficulty, and the goal is to guide all beans in the minimal amount of time.Dangerous Street
1992
Caverns of the Lost Miner
2007
Puzzle game for 8-bit Atari. The player controls a smiling head through a series of increasingly difficult caves. Each cave contains some diamonds. Once all diamonds are collected the player go to the next cave/screen. The gameplay is heavily influenced by Manic Miner. A life is lost if the player hits dangerous objects or surfaces or falls down from the height.Android
1991
Android
1991
Platform game, set in a space base filled with hostile robots; the player controls a remote-controlled android and must gather spare parts for a computer. The game can be switched between colored and black-and-white mode at any point.
