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The Atari 2600 (previously known as the Atari VCS) was the most successful home system of its generation, and it was home to many popular games that sold millions of copies (a figure unheard of before). The best-selling video game on the console is Pac-Man, a port of the arcade game of the same name programmed by Tod Frye. [1]
As the Atari 2600 console grew in popularity, in 1980 [10] other game developers, such as Activision and Imagic, entered the market and published more than 380 of their own cartridges for the Atari 2600. Many of the most popular Atari 2600 games, such as Pitfall! and Demon Attack, are third-party games. [11]
Swordquest is a series of video games originally produced by Atari, Inc. in the 1980s as part of a contest, consisting of three finished games, Earthworld, Fireworld and Waterworld (with these titles occasionally appearing on cartridge labels and boxes with capitalized central Ws, e.g. EarthWorld), and a planned fourth game, Airworld.
Pong (original Atari Pong C-100, 1972): $100 to $150 Asteroids (original arcade machine, 1979): $1,200 Collectors today prize well-maintained Atari consoles and rare game cartridges, with some ...
The last puzzle in "Pencilwise" has generally been "The World's Most Ornery Crossword," a large standard crossword puzzle which has two sets of clues spanning three pages. One set, which is revealed by folding one page in half to hide the second page, consists of "Hard" clues (three stars), while the clues under this fold are "Easy" (one star ...
The following is a list of the most expensive video games ever developed, with a minimum total cost of US$50 million and sorted by the total cost adjusted for inflation. Most game budgets are not disclosed, so this list is not indicative of industry trends.
The Mad Magazine Game; Magic: The Gathering (Hasbro's top-selling brand) Make-A-Million; Malarkey; Mall Madness; The Mansion of Happiness; Mastermind; Masterpiece; Merlin; Mille Bornes; Mind Maze; Mirror-Mirror (Winner of ITV's "Design a Board Game Competition") Monopoly (best selling board game ever according to the Guinness Book of World ...
A puzzle game where players attempt to connect both sides of a pit using falling blocks. Sprint 1: 1978: 1 A racing game with a variety of tracks with hazards. Sprint 2: 1976: 2, simultaneous The first game in Atari's Sprint line of racing games. Sprint 4: 1977: 4, simultaneous A racing game with a variety of tracks with hazards. Sprint 8: 1977 ...