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Atari 2600 Superman: Game-Breaking Exploits to Achieve an IMPOSSIBLE SCORE!

Superman is a video game programmed by John Dunn for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1979 by Atari, Inc. The player controls Superman, whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find three pieces of a bridge that was destroyed by Lex Luthor, capture Luthor and his […]

Jon

April 6, 2024

Atari 2600 Target Fun: Can I BEAT Every “Robot” Game Option?

Target Fun (known as Air-Sea Battle from Atari) was released in 1977 by Sears as a launch title for the Sears Tele-Games Video Arcade. An amazing multiplayer competitive game, some players (including me) didn’t even realize that it included single-player “robot” variations. Let’s find out what passed for artificial computer intelligence in a game from […]

Jon

February 24, 2024

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Atari 2600 Thunderground from SEGA | It’s All About Design!

Thunderground is an Atari 2600 video game developed by Sega Electronics and released by Sega in 1983. It appears to have been inspired mainly by one section of arcade game Borderline (1981), which sees a player drive a tank underground firing at other tanks while avoiding not to get hit. Your task is to tunnel […]

Jon

May 17, 2024

Atari 2600 Turmoil from 20th Century Fox | The BEST Tempest Experience You Can Get on the VCS!

You no doubt know the story of how Yars’ Revenge came about when Howard Scott Warshaw was assigned to port Star Castle to the Atari VCS. The system just wasn’t quite capable, but with a little re-design, a new and now classic game was born. I don’t know for a fact that similar evolution took […]

Jon

June 7, 2024

Atari 2600 Yars’ Revenge – The Ultimate Variation of the Ultimate VCS Game!

Yars’ Revenge is a video game released for the Atari 2600 in 1982. It was created by Howard Scott Warshaw and is Atari’s best-selling original game for the 2600. The player controls an insect-like creature called a Yar who must nibble or shoot through a barrier in order to fire its Zorlon Cannon into the […]

Jon

April 26, 2024

Atari 2600’s Atlantis from Imagic: I’ll Bet You Learn Something NEW!

Atlantis is a fixed shooter video game released by Imagic in July 1982 for the Atari 2600. It was written by Dennis Koble who also wrote Trick Shot for Imagic. Atlantis was ported to the Atari 8-bit computers, VIC-20, Intellivision, and Magnavox Odyssey 2. Atlantis was a video game competition in which players of the […]

Jon

June 28, 2024