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Atari 2600 Adventure: The First Video Game Easter Egg is Just the BEGINNING!

Adventure is a video game developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle. The game world […]

Jon

March 15, 2024

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Atari 2600 Donkey Kong: Was This Port TANKED to Make ColecoVision Look BETTER?

Donkey Kong is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Mario, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from a giant gorilla, Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the Donkey Kong series as well as Mario’s first appearance […]

Jon

March 22, 2024

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Atari 2600 Enduro: Activision’s Great American Cross-Country Road Race

Enduro is a racing video game designed by Larry Miller for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. The object of the game is to complete an endurance race, passing a certain number of cars each day to continue the next day. The visuals change from day to night, and there is occasional […]

Jon

March 6, 2024

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Atari 2600 H.E.R.O. – Can You Help “Roderick Hero” Save the Trapped Miners?

H.E.R.O. (standing for Helicopter Emergency Rescue Operation) is a video game designed by John Van Ryzin and published by Activision for the Atari 2600 in March 1984. It was ported to the Apple II, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. The player uses a helicopter backpack and other tools […]

Jon

April 12, 2024

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Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm!

Atari 2600 Keystone Kapers from Activision | The Third Time REALLY IS the Charm! Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and began developing what would become Keystone Kapers. On the games release […]

Jon

May 24, 2024

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Atari 2600 PHYSICAL RELEASE of Alien Abduction: Modern Update to Activision’s H.E.R.O.!

Audacity Games presents John Van Ryzin’s Alien Abduction! From the creator of Activision’s H.E.R.O. comes a spiritual successor that takes the player into the bowels of an alien spaceship to rescue an abducted princess. Navigate through lethal aliens, robot guards, and armed flying drones in a race against time and diminishing suit energy to find […]

Jon

August 13, 2024