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These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears, which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles. [2] Sears's Tele-Games brand was unrelated to the company Telegames , which also produced cartridges for the Atari 2600 (mostly re-issues of M Network games.) [ 3 ]
Gravitar is a color vector graphics multidirectional shooter arcade video game released by Atari, Inc. in 1982. Using the same "rotate-and-thrust" controls as Asteroids and Space Duel, the game was known for its high level of difficulty. [3] It was the first of over twenty games (including the 1983 Star Wars) that Mike Hally designed and ...
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]
Bill Kunkel and Arnie Katz of Electronic Games noted the familiarity of the game noting it belonged to the "Trek" genre of games which had dozens of titles, but was an achievement for its richness for an Atari 2600 game. [3] The reviewers concluded that the game had staying power due to its wide range of play possibilities. [3]
Atari Vault is a video game collection developed by Code Mystics and published by Atari Interactive for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux via the Steam client. Atari Vault contains titles from Atari, Inc. and Atari Corporation published on the Atari 2600 and arcade cabinets . dating from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Mr. Run and Jump began as an Atari 2600 homebrew game developed as a side project by John Mikula, a programmer at St. Louis, Missouri-based [3] [4] studio Graphite Lab. This version is briefly seen in the modern version, and an Atari 2600 cartridge can be pre-ordered. The modern version is a sequel of sorts.
Dragonstomper is a video game developed by Stephen Landrum for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) [2] and released by Starpath.The game follows the adventures of a dragon hunter who is given a quest by the king to defeat a dragon and reclaim a magical amulet that was stolen.
Reviewing the Atari 8-bit Computer version of the game, Computer Entertainer stated that it was even better than the Atari 2600 version of the game, noting challenging gameplay, fast-paced action, high quality sound effects and the graphic and humor, specifically noting details like treads on the tire enemies as they spin.