Atari 5200 Games

Game Title: A.E.
Game Type: Flight
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Please write a review of this game.

Game Title: Asteroids
Game Type: Action - Shootem Up
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Asteroids was a highly popular game in the Arcade before it was ported to many game consoles and home computers.

As a spaceship pilot trapped in the asteroid belt, blast your way out of the asteroids.

Each time you shoot one of the asteroids, it will break up into smaller pieces and these pieces move faster that the original piece. Eventually the pieces will become small enough that they can be destroyed.

When all asteroids have been fully destroyed, its time to level up to more asteroids. Watch out for flying saucers that are there to destroy you.

Game Title: Astro Chase
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Save Earth from eight mega mines. Use your flying saucer to destroy them all before they reach Earth.

Your ship is equipped with lasers which can be used to destroy enemy saucers and the mega mines. Located throughout the space around Earth are eight shield depots. Fly through one of these to provided limited invincible.

Your ship also has a limited energy. If you get too low on energy, use the resupply generators in the four corners of the play area.

When all of the mega mines have been destroyed, you will move on to the next, faster chase!

Game Title: Ballblazer
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Ballblazer is a one-on-one soccer match set in the distant future.

You are a robot trying to snare a floating ball called a plasmorb. Once snared, fired the plasmorb into your opponent's goal.

You play on a simple 3d playfield which is split in half. You can play against the computer or against another robot controlled by a human player.

Game Title: Barroom Baseball
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Barroom Baseball is an interesting prototype in that it was never intended for home use. As the name suggests Barroom Baseball was a special version of Realsports Baseball modified for use in 5200 arcade units.

These 5200's were modified to run as coin operated consoles for use in bars and in Latin American countries.

It is unknown if any of these units were actually produced, but according to internal company memos at least one may have been field tested. To date no other specially modified games have been found.

Game Title: Battlezone
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: As the pilot of a heavy tank, wipe out enemy tanks and landing vehicles. Be sure to move around the map to avoid being hit.

Game Title: Beamrider
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Beamrider is a unique space shooter game. The game's maps are drawn using 3-d and objects get bigger the closer to them you move -- just like real life.

Pilot your star-ship to defeat evil aliens which have encased the Earth in a strange field of glowing beams.

Battle through 99 treacherous sectors. The number of enemies and dangerous objects you must avoid increasing as you progress through the levels. Use your blaster to destroy most enemies, and torpedoes to destroy anything that's hard to kill. Be careful as you have a limited number of torpedoes.

An enemy mother-ship that appears at the end of each sector and can only be destroyed with the torpedo.

Game Title: Beef Drop
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

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Game Title: Berzerk
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: You are in a building infested with robots. Each room has a number of walls that restrict your movement.

Each room also has a number or robots. Many robots appear to be stationary during early levels, but move as you level-up. The game supports shooting in eight directions. Earn an extra life every 2000 points.

Game Title: Black Belt
Game Type: Fighting
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: In this game, you play Riki. Kyoko, your girlfriend was kidnapped, and in order to rescue her, get through a tireless army of enemies that are armed by whips, knives, swords and flame throwers.

You will fighting Chinese Kung Fu men, wrestlers, jujitsu men, eagles, ninjas and black women. When you get halfway through the chapter, you will fight a different enemy than one that you encounter before. At the end of each chapter is a boss that must be defeated before moving to the next chapter.

Touching the enemy or a boss will cause you to loose energy. Once you lose all energy, you forfeit a life.

Black Belt is a modified version of the Japanese-exclusive Hokuto no Ken, with the licence removed and new level designs.

Game Title: Blaster
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Blaster is a 3-D shooting game sequel to Robotron: 2084. However, 3-D graphics used in the game made it very expensive to produce, and as a result, only a few hundred were ever produced.

Blaster was had great graphics for the time and was a pleasure to watch. Though, some reported that the game was very difficult to play. Few players were skilled enough to reach the end. This posses a problem for those that make money off games as those games that are difficult to play seldom ever make a profit.

Game Title: Blue Print
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Your girlfriend Daisy is in trouble because Ollie Org is chasing her and won't stop. Head to rescue her.

In order to save her, you must construct a time machine in the time allotted. The blue print for the machine is at the bottom of the screen, so all you need to do is locate the parts which are hidden in the numerous houses in a maze like town.

When you locate a part, bring it back and place it on the blue print. Once all parts have been located, press the start button to initialise the machine. As you may expect, there are many obstacles in the way.

Search each home for the parts. Homes that do not have a part will have a bomb that you have to diffuse.

Watch out for falling flower pots as getting hit by one of these will end one of your lifes. You also need to be careful of Fuzzy Wuzzy who wanders around the neighbourhood randomly. An encounter with Fuzzy Wuzzy will also be deadly. You also have to watch out for Sneaky Pete, while not deadly, you will wish he was as he will cause your time machine to be reassembled from scratch.

Game Title: Boogie
Game Type: Demo
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Boogie is not a game but a music demo.

This prototype displays the 5200 splash screen while continuously playing a "boogie" tune.

The music was designed to show off the 5200's sound capabilities.

Game Title: Boulder Dash II: Rockford's Revenge
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Part two changed very little in terms of game design: you still get to mine diamonds while avoiding falling rocks and cave monsters of all sorts.

Game Title: Bounty Bob Strikes Back
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Bounty Bob Strikes Back is the sequel to Miner 2049er.

Your goal is to claim every inch of 25 challenging mines. You must walk over each segment of the framework in the mines and to do this, you will need to figure out a way to jump, climb, or use one of many devices.

Wandering about each mine are deadly mutants and deadly means you will loose a life in you come in contact with any of them. Also scattered throughout each mine are special food items. Collect these food items for energy.

Game Title: Bristles
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Paint eight buildings while avoiding the Bucket Chucker and his Flying Half-Pints.

Each buildings has six skill levels. Use elevators, climb stairs and watch out for the super's daughter.

Bristles was originally released by First Star in 1984 for the use on Atari 8-bit home computers. The game was well received but saw limited distribution.

Game Title: Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Buck Rogers began as a comic strip and later in the 1980s adapted as a TV show. It became an arcade game before being ported to various game consoles and home computers.

This Fast and furious racing game taking place on a futuristic racetrack. Guide your spaceship between the pylons and shoot down other enemy racers.

Game Title: Castle Blast
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

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Game Title: Castle Crisis
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Fans of the classic Atari arcade game Warlords will be pleased to learn that Bryan Edewaard has developed a version for the Atari 5200

Titled Castle Crisis is essentially a port of the Atari arcade game Warlords. Use your shields to protect yourself while you capture and launch fireballs against an enemy's castle. You must also protect your own castle at the same time.

Game-play mechanics and graphics mirror the arcade in this four player game.

Game Title: Centipede
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Use your magic wand to kill the nasty bugs that make their way through a mushroom patch.

Flea fall straight down towards the player leaving a fresh patch of mushrooms. This is kind of bad because the centipedes are harder to shot.

The Scorpion runs from side to side across the screen, turning mushrooms into poisonous toadstool, which cause the Centipede to behave irrationally and dive bomb the player, also not so good. Spiders behave a little more erratically as they jump up and down towards the player. All this while the Centipede makes it way down the playing field. Shooting segments cause the Centepede to split off and form multiple targets.

There is a lot going on in this game, which helped propel this game to a top seller. It's fast and addictive and has survived and lived on in many platforms through the past 20 years.