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One of the nine Atari 2600 launch games Steeplechase - Jim Huether March 1981: One of the three games Atari produced exclusively for Sears. Stellar Track - Robert Zdybel March 1981: One of the three games Atari produced exclusively for Sears. Street Racer: Speedway II: Larry Kaplan: September 1977: One of the nine Atari 2600 launch games ...
Word Zapper is an Atari 2600 game written by Henry Will IV [2] and published under the Vidtec label of U.S. Games in 1982. Word Zapper combines spelling exercises with action gaming, as the player must shoot letters that scroll across the top of the screen to complete words. [3]
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
Backgammon is a video game adaptation of the board-game backgammon developed by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later the Atari 2600) and released in 1979. [1] The game was one of the earliest electronic versions of Backgammon. [2] The cover art for the game was by Chris Spohn, who created the cover art for many early Atari ...
Video games in this category have been or will be released exclusively on the Atari 2600, and are not available for purchase or download on other video game consoles or personal computers. This does not include emulated re-releases that run on modern systems (e.g., as part of retro anthologies).
Fatal Run is a 1990 post-apocalyptic-themed vehicular combat game developed by Sculptured Software for the Atari 2600 and Atari 7800 and published by Atari Corporation. [1] [2] Along with Klax, this was the last game Atari officially released for the Atari 2600. [3] At 32kB of data, the game was also the biggest ever released for the Atari 2600 ...
The A.V. Club thought the title was surprising and abstract in the wake of the Atari 2600's final days. [8] Classic Home Video Games called the game ambitious, almost to a fault. [ 9 ] Classic Videogame Hardware Genius Guide described it as a "final swan-song" and a way of squeezing the last money out of the console.
The site is also home to a community of homebrew developers for Atari and other classic video game systems. [3] Some of the homebrew games originally published by AtariAge have been included in official video game compilations such as Activision Anthology. [4] AtariAge was acquired by Atari SA in September 2023. The site will remain under ...