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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 Game, Atlantis, Has a Secret Sequel YOU’VE ALREADY PLAYED!

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, Solar Storm, and Shootin’ Gallery for Imagic. Atlantis was wildly popular, but it’s rarely known that Imagic also released a sequel to this popular title in the […]

Jon

June 18, 2022

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 LEGO VCS Set OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED! – Better Than We’d Hoped

It’s legit! The LEGO Atari 2600 has been officially announced and while it’s slightly different from some of the early rumors, in many ways it exceeds our expectations! Set number 10306 will sell for $239.99. In this video we review the publicity stills from LEGO’s listing for the set and analyze all the cool little […]

Jon

July 20, 2022

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