Atari 5200 Games

Game Title: Super Pac-Man
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Super Pac-Man did not perform very well as it played very differently from the rest of the family. As as result, it was never ported to any other platforms and was not considered a commercial success.

Game Title: Tempest
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Tempest was a top arcade game and was subsequently ported to several game consoles and home computers and did well there too.

Its featured a mix of fast addictive game-play and beautiful colour vector graphics.

Game Title: The Dreadnaught Factor
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: The Zorban Dreadnaughts are huge space craft that are 140,000 feet long and weigh 970 megatons. These are the largest, most heavily armoured spaceships ever created. Unfortunately, these are not your ships, but are headed towards your home planet and your job is to stop them.


The game is played from a side scrolling overhead point of view as your small but agile spaceship flies past the dreadnaughts. On each pass your spaceship makes, you need to try and bomb as many of the energy vents as possible. When all energy vents on a dreadnaught are destroyed, that dreadnaught will explode.

As you can expect, time is limited. if you make too many passes to destroy the energy vents the dreadnaught will be within firing range of your home planet and will destroy it. Each of the dreadnoughts are heavily armed and other weapons are located on each dreadnought.

Game Title: Track and Field
Game Type: Sports
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Track and Field events include the following:

100 meter dash
Hammer throw
The long jump
110 meter hurdles

The MSX version replaces the hurdles with a 400 meter dash. Getting to the next event requires qualification.

Game Title: Vanguard
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Your must pilot your spaceship to the City of Mystery that is located at the end of a heavily guarded tunnel. The tunnel is broken up into several different zones:

Mountain zone
Rainbow zone
Stick zone
Stripe zone
Bleak zone
City of Mystery.

Each zone features different enemy spaceships, some more powerful than others

In the mountain zone or stripe zone, you may also come across an energy pod marked with an 'E'. Fly through this marker and become invincible. Otherwise, use your ship's lasers to help destroy enemies.

You can fire in four different directions, however your speed is decreased when firing. Your fuel can also be an issue as it depletes at a rapid rate. Fuel is gained each time you destroy an enemy, so make sure you destroy as many as you can. Running out of fuel will spell instant death.

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.

Game Title: Xari Arena
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: It's kind of like breakout with the difference is that you must defend your blocks and shoot at a force that wants to destroy your blocks.

Game Title: Xevious
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Xevious was a scrolling first-person shooter, and while a common game form today, was a new style of game play in 1982. Coupled with the graphics and game play, Xevious became very popular in arcades and was soon ported to all the popular game consoles and home computers of the time.

Game Title: Yellow Submarine
Game Type: Demo
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: This prototype is simply a movement demo featuring the famous Beatles yellow submarine. Use the joystick to move your submarine around. There are no borders, no enemies and the sub will wrap around to the other side of the screen after a second or two.

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.

Game Title: Zenji
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: The goal of the game is to turn the entire maze green. This is done by connecting each section of the maze to the centre of the screen.

After all sections of the maze have been connected, you can move on to the next, more challenging level.

Game Title: Zone Ranger
Game Type: Action
Game Generation: 2

Game Description: Zone Ranger is similar to Asteroids. As the pilot of a spaceship, you must use your ship's lasers to destroy large rocks, rogue satellites and boomerangs.

Use the warp holes to be transported to another location. Occasionally, you will come across some sonic sparklers. These sparklers allow you to become invincible by touching them.

Another oddity you may come across is a super portal. This portal transports you to the inner sanctum where bonus dots can be found.