Bank Heist

Atari 2600 - Released - January 1, 1983

You are a bank robber, driving around a maze of streets (representing the city) in a 1930's style car. Your purpose is clear: perform "bank heists" by driving across white-pillared symbols that represent banks. As you "rob" each of the banks, they disappear, and a police car appears in its place, beginning hot pursuit after a few moments. You must avoid the cops to stay alive. Fortunately you are not completely defenseless, as you have a stock of dynamite, which you can strategically drop to destroy the cop cars. Besides the escape tunnel that will take you from one side of the screen to...

Beany Bopper

Atari 2600 - Released - January 1, 1982

In this game, you are the character called Bopper. The object is to stun then capture Beanies. You can also capture Bouncing Orange Eyeballs and various Falling Objects. If an unstunned Beany touches you, you lose a life. You don't need to stun the other items to capture them but doing so makes them slow down. You get a bonus Bopper by shooting four Beanies in a row without losing a Bopper. There are two game options, one where the Beanies bounce off the walls on screen, the other where they pass through.

Crypts of Chaos

Atari 2600 - Released - 1982

The object of this game is to kill monsters in the crypts, get any treasure you can find, and get out on the crypts. How deep in the crypt you start depends on the game selection. Games one, two, three, or four place you at levels five, nine, thirteen, or one, respectively. Your weapons are a sword (unlimited attacks but useless against wizards), wand (limited attacks, depending on game selection, useless on dragons), ring of power (limited attacks, depending on game selection), and peace symbol (unlimited uses but you get no points and only useful on trolls, eyes, wizards and...

Deadly Duck

Atari 2600 - Released - 1982

In Deadly Duck the player controls the titular character who must shoot his bill bullets at crabs, the bricks they drop, and dragonflies. Each level starts with eight crabs. The crabs grab bricks from the sides and try to drop them on the player-controlled duck. It is possible to shoot the crabs and the bricks as they fall, but if a brick lands on the duck, he dies. When a brick lands on an empty spot, it will stay on the pond for a moment, preventing the duck from moving horizontally. On levels two to four there are two, four and six dragonflies, respectively, moving together just under...

Entity

Atari 2600 - Unreleased - 1983

The Entity is an unreleased 20th Century Fox game based on a horror movie sharing the same name. It's odd that Fox decided to go forward with this project, given the movie's disturbing adult theme where a young woman is raped by a ghost. This could very well be why Fox didn't release the game, although the game itself has little in common with the movie's subject matter. The Entity was programmed by Mark Kline, who was responsible for two other unreleased Fox games, Pick Up and Look Ahead. The cart, box and manual are reproductions from 2003 with permission of programmer Mark Klein.

Fantastic Voyage

Atari 2600 - Released - 1982

Fantastic Voyage is a vertically scrolling shooter for one player. The premise of the game follows that of the 1966 movie of the same name; you and your submarine have been miniaturized and injected into the blood stream of an ill patient. Your goal is to prevent the patient from dieing by locating deadly blood clots and destroying them. In each level you will guide the submarine through the blood vessels and need to avoid the many obstacles you'll encounter such as bacteria and clotlets. The submarine is equipped with a laser ray which can be used to shoot these obstacles. There are also...

Fast Eddie

Atari 2600 - Released - 1982

As Fast Eddie, you must go from floor to floor, collecting prizes. Up to two prizes will be on the screen at any one time on any floor but the top one. There are a max on ten prizes per screen. On each floor, a Sneaker stands or roams back and forth. You move to another floor or jump to avoid the Sneakers. On the top floor is High-Top, the tallest Sneaker. You have to get at least nine prizes. After you get the ninth, High-Top will be low enough to jump over. You then jump over him to get the key above him. Then it is on the the next screen. You get ten points for the first prize,...

Flash Gordon

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

You are Flash Gordon. Many spacemen have entered Spider City but never returned. Your job, Flash, is two fold. Rescue any spacemen you find in the tunnels of Spider City and destroy all the hatching pods. The lower part of the screen is a map. You are the horizontal line, the hatching pods are the vertical lines and the Disrupters are the crosses. The upper part of the screen is the close-up of the action. You rescue spacemen by touching them with your ship. You destroy hatching pods, and the spider warriors that hatch, by flying to the pods then shooting the warriors. You can also...

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

Sony PSP - Released - December 7, 2009

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game for PSP and Wii shares the setting with the blockbuster movie, but tells a completely different story. A nameless Na’vi warrior, the only survivor of the village destroyed by the RDA (humans), sets on a journey to avenge the death of his people. Along the way he will master his warrior skills, tame a few exotic creatures and find another tribe to accept him as a brother. This is a 3D action game with an emphasis on stealth. The warrior has two means of attack – a bow and a staff, but there’s not much he can do in an open combat against several soldiers or...

M.A.S.H

Atari 2600 - Released - 1982

You are Hawkeye Pierce, Chief Medical Surgeon of the 4077th MASH. Your responsibilities include rescuing injured men from the battlefield, performing surgery in the operating room, or, in an alternative game, picking up Colonel Potter's skydiving medics. You pilot your chopper low through the trees, avoiding shells fired at you from a North Korean tank. After picking up the medics or wounded and rushing them back to the hospital, the pressure really starts to get heavy. Time is running out for the injured men and you must operate. You have to work fast. You are competing with your...

Meltdown

Atari 2600 - Unreleased - 1983

Meltdown is basically a game of hide and seek that place on a 4x4 grid of atoms. At the start of each round you will see a rogue quark move about the reactor agitating the atoms. Each time the quark touches one of atoms it will strip off some of the electrons and atom will shrink. Once an atom has lost all it's electrons it will become unstable, if all the atoms destabilize the reactor will blow! Why 20th Century Fox decided to cancel Meltdown is unknown, but was most likely due to the collapsing video game market. The decision to cancel the game must have been made at the last moment,...

Porky's

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

You play as Edward "Pee Wee" Morris, who, despite his shortcomings, strives to get revenge on Porky, the owner of the bar that dissed Pee Wee and his friends. County Line ----------------- You begin at the county line. You must move up from highway lane to highway lane without getting hit. You get points for dodging various obstacles on your way to Porky's. Motor Boat=1 point The Police=100 points Porky's Girls=200 points Attack Pigs=400 points Porky's Bouncers=800 points Pig Mobile=1600 points Last Band=3200 points Porky's Bar ----------------- After you get all the way to...

Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

You must build three walls above the tomato plants at the bottom. You must also dodge tomato bombs shot by the tomato plants, shoot tomato vines that grow on any part of the wall, shoot cherry tomatoes (or just dodge their shots) and shoot or dodge beefsteak tomatoes. To capture a brick, you shoot it once. Then to place it, you shoot vertically at the wall once. You cannot place bricks horizontally. The game's default is level setting six, which has all enemies and each round is harder than the last. The level settings are as follows: Level one: Tomato plants only and every round is the...

Save the Whales

Atari 2600

Spacemaster X-7

Atari 2600 - Released - 1983

Your assault ship was specially designed to destroy Hyperion Military Bases. Destroy as many as possible. You can fire missiles in the gaps in the Force Field or from inside the Force Field. If you are able to sneak inside, you must quickly destroy the bace before the Force Field closes on your ship. This is no easy task! A version of this game was released by Sirius as Alpha Shield for the Atari 8-bit systems.

Turmoil

Atari 2600 - January 1, 1982

The objective is to zoom up and down the center alley and blast aliens as they streak by. Keep shooting and keep moving to avoid a deadly collision with a speeding alien spacecraft.

Worm War I

Atari 2600 - Released - January 1, 1982

Your mission, as a master tank commander, is to drive through the city of Teriyaki and blast away as many Worms and Blocks as possible without running out of fuel.