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Fully featured rescue-oriented platformer reminiscent of games like Donkey Kong and Popeye, which includes the ability to PUNCH MONKEYS!!
Drive a six-wheeled rover as you traverse the surface of the moon, jumping over holes and gunning down enemy ships.
Yars' Revenge is a popular Atari 2600 game in which the user controls a fly-like creature on a quest for revenge!
Dig dug is an arcade game released in 1982. The objective is to kill the underground monsters by either squishing them under a rock through the tunnels you create or by popping them using your weapon directly.
Adventure game based on the popular movie
A sequel to the arcade classic featuring Pac-Man's feminine counterpart. The game is notable for having a variety of mazes as opposed to the single maze design in the original game, as well as bonus items that wandered through the mazes rather than appearing just in the center.
Soccer game for the Atari 2600, and quite possibly the oldest celebrity tie-in video game. It sports the name of one of the greatest soccer players of all time.
Pinball simulator for the Atari 2600
Circus Atari is a Breakout style game developed and published by Atari. It was released for the Atari 2600 in 1981. For optimal control, the game required the use of paddle controllers.
A 1981 maze game from Atari
Caverns of Mars is a vertical scrolling shooter with fuel tanks and multiple zone types.
Vanguard is a scrolling shooter that allows players to shoot in multiple directions in space. The player spends their time avoiding obstacles and shooting enemies in order to replenish their quickly dissipating fuel supply.
Tempest is a rotation-based shooter with vector graphics, first appearing in arcades in 1981. It popularized the subgenre of “tube shooters” and also pioneered the use of vectors in game graphics.
Carve up the inside of the playfield while dodging the titular Qix in this 1981 arcade game by Taito's American division.
Save innocent Humans from the menacing alien invaders bent on transforming them into hideous mutants in the sequel to the famous Defender.
Centipede is a vertical shooter in which you must destroy centipedes and other bugs before they reach the bottom of the screen and destroy you.
Control Jumpman (later known as Mario) and save his girlfriend, Pauline, from the evil barrel-tossing gorilla known as Donkey Kong. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto, this was the game that set the template for the platformer genre.
An arcade game released by Atari in 1980.
Chris Crawford-designed simulation of a nuclear reactor. The basis of this model was the nuclear reactor at 3-Mile Island, which had recently suffered a near-meltdown and was probably a direct inspiration for the creation of this simulation.
The sequel to the hit arcade game, Asteroids, it was released in 1980 by Atari. Just as in its predecessor, players are tasked with destroying the dangerous space rocks in an asteroid field without crashing into any or being shot down by malevolent UFOs.
Players must destroy waves of UFOs while saving abductees in this classic shoot 'em up
Attempt to drive around the track, picking up all the dots along the way while avoiding a head-on collision with the other cars.
Golf is simplified version of the sport it is based on.
Maze Craze is a maze game with a few twists for the Atari 2600 for one or two players
Othello for the Atari 2600 is a faithful representation of Reversi
4-player paddle-based game for the Atari 2600. Has since come out in various versions, few of which still utilize the paddle.
Released in 1980, Battlezone was an arcade machine where you assumed the role of a tank commander in a vector-based graphic world. Allowing for split screen multiplayer, it entertained for years, and even in the '90s.
Berzerk is an arcade game released in 1980 in which the player must escape a maze filled with evil robots.
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