showing 5 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard | Atari;CCE;VGS (General Computer) | 1982 | labelimageminimize | |
| Zaxxon | Coleco;CBS Electronics (Coleco) | 1982 | You pilot an attack shuttle whose mission is to strafe the enemy's "Asteroid City". Destroy fuel tanks, gun emplacements, missiles, fighters and a large enemy robot. The game uses an isometric three-quarters perspective that was a unique concept to arcade games of that era.***Late in the life of the 2600, Atari planned to re-release this title under their own label as they had done with some other Coleco and Parker Bros. games. It would have been CX26149 in their catalog. | labelimagesubject |
| Super Cobra | Parker Brothers | 1983 | [48]***This game is fbd because causing a fuel tank to explode mysteriously results in fuel being added to the player's ship. [Zerothis] | labelimageminimize |
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre | Wizard Video Games (VSS) | 1983 | [125]***Recreate the chilling climax of the most horrifying movie ever made! WIZARD VIDEO GAMES presents THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE VIDEO GAME, on your ATARI 2600 or SEARS Tele-Game Video Arcade. Grab your joystick and become "Leatherface," the homicidal, chainsaw wielding maniac of your nightmares! A group of hapless tourists have trespassed on your property. One by one, they've been hunted down and eliminated. Now, only a handful remain! So, oil up your chainsaw and find as many victims as you can before your fuel runs out! [Zerothis]***1 Player. Use the joystick controller. Play as the villain Leatherface. His goal is to chop up the trespassing young girls with his chainsaw. Bushes, cow skulls, fences, and wheelchairs will slow him down. These obstacles can be destroyed with the chainsaw. If he runs out of fuel, one of the girls will sneak up behind and kill him with a swift kick. How did she know that Letherface has an Achilles Butt? An idling chainsaw uses less fuel but doesn't cut very well. A kill is worth 1000 points, 5 kills is worth a refueling. Obviously Wizard Video Games intended to rack up sales based on shock value. Instead, stores voluntarily refused to carry this game over the counter. Further obscuring by fate, placed its release date on the cusp of the great videogame crash of '84. So difficult to buy, then and now, and such an outrageous idea (in its day), that some considered this game to be a myth for many years. Even further obscuring and mythic status was cause when descriptions by various players of this game didn't match. Turns out there is [i]another Texas Chainsaw Massacre game[/i] for the 2600 developed for Wizard Video Games by a completely different company than Video Software Specialists (VSS, Inc). Less than 6 weeks of development were used to come up with the idea and finish this title. The game was advertised as having gore. The 'gore' appears to pour from the victims skulls but is nearly the same color as their hair, so it merely looks like a bad hairdo. [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
| Caverns of Mars | Atariage;Atari (APX) | 2005 | Greg Christensen submitted his game to the Atari Program Exchange (APX) in 1981. It was published by APX on floppy disk (1981), cassette (1982), and cartridge (1983, RX8021) for the Atari 8-bit platform. In 2005 the game was released for the 2600 platform via the [gametag=flashback2.0 Atari Flashback 2.0 system]flashback2.0 Atari Flashback 2.0 system[/gametag]. In 2006, Atariage published a cartridge version called Conquest of Mars. [Zerothis] | labelimageminimize |
