Atari 2600 Games
Overview
Date Range: 1977 - 1995
Atari 2600 games had a much longer production run that the similar equipped 8-bit game consoles. There are several reasons for this long run including:
- Several thousand games were produced
- Atari kept producing console until 1992
- Atari had many top hits for the 2600
There is still an active community today with games still being produced. There are also plenty of emulation packages for playing 2600 games on PCs.
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Game Title: Wall Ball
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Play racquetball in this 3D simulator.
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Game Title: Wall-Defender
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Another space shooter that has you defending your fortress against nasty aliens.
The aliens will come from all sides of the screen. You must shoot them before hit your wall. If ten aliens or one super alien hit your wall, the outermost wall and the bridges connecting it to the next wall in will collapse.
The game will end in one of two possible ways: 1) You are on a wall section or connecting bridge when it collapses, causing you to float away, or 2) Your score reaches 999,999 points.
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Game Title: Warlords
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Defend yourself from three human and or three computer players. Either way, you will face three other players.
Each player occupies a corner of the screen. You control a small shield which can be moved around the edge of the castle. To survive, use your shield to block a ball that bounces around the screen. If the ball hits your castle, it will take out some of the bricks.
The last player left alive wins the battle, and the first player to win five battles wins the game! Several game options are included which allow you to either catch or ricochet the ball when the shield touches it, and control the speed of the game.
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Game Title: Warplock
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Taking aim at the tormenters swarming outside your space craft's main View Port, you must destroy the space bandits' ships before they get you. At the same time, you must avoid the Photon Bombs with which some of your attackers are equipped.
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Game Title: Warring Worms
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Warring Worms is like an advanced version of the classic Atari game Surround.
While avoiding walls, each worm can shoot a cannon that will destroy a single block on the playing field, or kill the opposing worm.
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Game Title: Wings
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Wings is an unreleased game developed by CBS Electronics. Wings is an air combat simulation that uses a control scheme of two joysticks.
The first joystick controls your plane and the second controls access to your weapons. It was originally assumed the game would use the CBS Booster Grip controller, due to a prototype box that shows Wings packaged with the controller.
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Game Title: Winter Games
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Another in a series of popular Epyx games series. Like those that preceded the Winter Games you can play with up to eight players in a series of games. Choose your country and then select to play all the games, play a few games or just practice a particular game over and over.
Games offered include:
Ski jump
Hot Dog
Biathlon
Bobsled
Free Skating
Figure Skating
Some console may have more games or less games.
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Game Title: Wizard
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Please write a review of this game.
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Game Title: Wizard of Wor
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: You control a warrior who is trapped in a dungeon.
Earn points by shooting the numerous enemy creatures which wander about the maze.
The creatures wander about at different speeds and will shoot darts at you. Some will even disappear for a brief period. Use your radar to locate these invisible creatures. After completing a maze, be ready with the fire button to destroy a Worluk. He won't always appear, but when he does, you will be awarded double points in the next dungeon if he is killed.
The game can be played by one player or two players simultaneously.
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Game Title: Word Zapper
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Your goal is to zap three words in 99 seconds.
A word will appear at the bottom of the screen. Your task is then to recreate this word by controlling your spaceship and zapping letters in the correct order which will be scrolling by at the top of the screen.
To make this task more challenging, various asteroids will fly by horizontally. The asteroids will cause you to lose time, or even destroy your ship and end the game.
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Game Title: Worm War 1
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: As the worms move back and forth, you must shoot them so they don't touch your tank. Try not to shoot fuel pagodas for obvious reasons. To refuel, simply touch these pagodas.
In the two player games, you have selections on co-operative or competitive. In co-op, you have the same points and fuel tank. When one tank refuels, it refuels both. In competitive, you each have a score and fuel tank. You compete to get enemies and fuel.
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Game Title: Xenophobe
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: After a distress call was received from a space station orbiting your home world, then complete silence. However, a single ship managed to leave the planet. The pilot tells a tale of pods that hatch into acid-spitting Xenos.
A small band of engineers were dispatched to combat the Xeno threat before it takes over all the space stations and, eventually, your home world. Assemble your band of engineers and fight the Xenos on each station, striving to either clear it or abandon it.
You start out with a standard issue laser but can use any weapon that you can find. Keep an eye open for Phasers, Lightning Rifles, Poofer guns, and bombs.
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Game Title: Yar's Revenge
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Destroy the Qotile laser-base that is located on the right side of the screen behind the shield. Controlling the fly-like Yar, which can destroy the shield piece by piece by either shooting at it or running into it.
Once the shield is down, use the Zorlon cannon to destroy the Qotile. The Qotile isn't completely unarmed against your attacks. Wandering around the screen is a destroyer missile that homes in on your Yar. The missile cannot be destroyed though it is possible to temporarily hide from it in a shield.
The problem is that the Yar will be unable to fire when hiding in the shield. he Qotiles second weapon is a swirl which it will randomly fire at you and should be dodged. When you finally destroy the Qotile you can move on to the next, faster round of gameplay.
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Game Title: Z-Track
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: In this city-destructing game, fly your saucer and destroy the cities while avoiding being shot by the same cities you are trying to destroy.
You advance to the next level when all the cities of that level are destroyed. The game ends if you reach 999,999 points or lose all of your ships.
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Game Title: Zaxxon
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2 |
Game Description: Your goal is to defeat the Zaxxon defence system The game has three stages, first taking you through Asteroid City that is heavily protected by aircraft, guns and missiles.
Stage two is a space shoot out against hordes of enemy aircraft. Those you failed to destroy in the first part of the task. Complete this and you reach the final battle with Zaxxon.
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