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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 ]
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976.
Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename. [2] It is open-source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Stella was originally written in 1996 (and known as Stella 96 [3]) by Bradford W. Mott, and is now maintained by Stephen Anthony.
Indy 500 was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 went on sale [3] in September 1977. Sears Tele-Games later re-released it as Race . Included with each game was a set of two driving controllers, which were identical in appearance to the 2600 paddle controller but could rotate indefinitely in either direction, among other ...
Tron: Deadly Discs is a video game for the Intellivision console published by Mattel in 1982. The initial game design was done by Don Daglow, with further design and programming by Steven Sents. It is the first of three Intellivision games based on the Disney motion picture Tron. Mattel released an Atari 2600 version under its M Network label.
The game was released during the early popular use of the internet where the popularity of retrogaming began to expand exponentially. This led to companies releasing compilation titles such as the Atari 2600 Action Pack. The games emulator was programmed by Mike Livesay and was his first game he made for the Windows 95 operating system.
The Intellivision version of this game is an adventure game and is more complex than the Atari version. Rather than starting out as Kool-Aid Man, you instead control two children attempting to make a batch of Kool-Aid. In order to do so, the kids must traverse a large three story house in search of the three items (a pitcher, sugar and Kool-Aid ...
Oystron is an action game developed for the Atari 2600 by Piero Cavina and released in 1997. It is one of the earliest hobbyist-written games for the console. The game, Cavina's first, was initially made available as a freeware 4 KB binary file designed for use on the Starpath Supercharger and with Atari 2600 emulators. [1]