Doug's Atari Games
| Game | Company | Game Type / Description |
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| Adventure | Atari | adventure/fantasy |
| Adventure Plus | Steve Engelhardt | Adventure is one of the earliest and BEST Atari games ever. You play a yellow square roaming around mazes and castles and you acquire stuff like swords (that look like an arrow symbol) and bridges and magnets, etc. You slaw duck-looking dragons, avoid bats that steal stuff and fly around with potentially valuable tools and you attempt to return the golden chalice back to the gold castle. Well, Adventure Plus is the SAME game with new twists, new mazes, better looking dragons and other graphics. Good job, Steve, in designing a follow-up that doesn't suck! (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Adventures of Tron | Mattel | arcade/movie-based |
| Air Raiders | Atari | |
| Air Sea Battle | Atari | target shoot / classic Atari game |
| Airlock | Data Age | weird space game I haven't taken the time to figure out yet. And, yes, I actually have the instructions. |
| Armor Attack | Mattel | tank battle game, not as good as Battlezone or Robot Tank, not as fun as Combat |
| Asteroids | Atari | arcade classic / shooting big asteroids into little asteroids, avoiding UFOs... |
| Astroblast | Mattel | arcade, similar to Asteroids except you are stationary and have to shoot falling blocks / asteroids |
| Atlantis | Imagic | arcade, defending your city with 3 laser cannons, shooting flying ships |
| Atlantis | CCE | Basically, this is the same as regular Atlantis put out by Imagic, but repackaged by a Brazilian company called CCE. I picked this game up while at the New England Classic Gamers annual "convention" in Jamaica Plain this plast winter...(Info about CCE from AtariAge.com) |
| Barnstorming | Activision | arcade, fly your biplane through barns, over wind things, speed game |
| Basketball | Atari | sports |
| Bermuda Triangle | Data Age | Fun game involving being underwater shooting stuff. Haven't played it enough yet to really get beyond that quickie description. (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Berzerk | Atari | arcade, I love to watch the main character fry as he hits the electrified walls... heehee |
| Berzerk - Voice Enhanced | Homebrew/AtariAge | This re-working of the classic Atari game Berzerk is up there with the remake of Adventure EXCEPT that Berzerk VE has synthesized SPEECH... The robots actually try to taunt you with lines from the original arcade game: "Chicken, Fight Like A Robot", "Humanoid Must Not Escape" and the ever-popular "Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert!" Brings back memories... sigh... Now I must go shoot me some robots... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Bowling | Atari | sports, love the victory dance/jump as you get a strike |
| Breakout | Atari | hey, look... if my PADDLES worked, I'd be playing this brick-breakin' game left & right, BUT they don't work... so... |
| Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom | Sega | Haven't played it yet... cartridge is in GREAT condition, though... |
| Bugs | Data Age | arcade |
| Bump'n'Jump | Mattel | the best game I've gotten off eBay yet! Very fun, very true to arcade game. The premise here is to keep driving at any cost, crashing other cars into walls, avoiding driving off roads that just end, jumping & crushing other cars... A real driver's ed. dream game. |
| Burgertime | Mattel | arcade, you're a chef, you're making burgers & peppering your enemies |
| Centipede | Atari | arcade |
| Championship Soccer | Atari | sports, awful game |
| Chopper Command | Activision | arcade |
| Circus Atari | Atari | arcade |
| Combat | Atari | arcade, tanks, biplanes, jets... possibly the BEST 2-player-at-same-time game for Atari |
| Commando | Activision | Another "rare" find, acquired cheaply at the New England Classic Gamers annual "convention". Very similar to Frontline, but still a good cheeseball army shoot'em up game where you stumble through the desert in a hurky-jerky manner, lobbing grenades and letting loose some hellfire from your M-16. I expect to have some Post Traumatic Stress Disorder(s) after a couple hours of playing this one. Cue the "Deerhunter" theme... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Commando Raid | U.S. Games | arcade |
| Congo Bongo | Sega | arcade, could have been good, but choppy movement, difficult control, just not fun |
| Cosmic Ark | Imagic | arcade, oddball space game in 2 parts |
| Cosmic Commuter | Activision | Never heard of this one before. I guess you fly around shooting things, getting fuel & picking up hitchhikers. |
| Cosmic Creeps | Telesys | arcade, awful game |
| Crystal Castles | Atari | arcade, cutesy, Pac-Man-esque game |
| Dark Cavern | Mattel | |
| Dark Chambers | Atari | Adventure's young upstart brother, came out toward end of Atari, great Adventure game... |
| Deadly Duck | 20th Century Fox | (If you just read the Strategy X, review, read this one in the same deadpan manner...) You're a duck. You're deadly. You're shooting at crap above you in the sky that's shooting back at you. Classic survival theme. But watch out... some of these vile enemies are sending down these blocker things that will restrict your movement and make it easier for them to wipe your feather coated butt off the map. Enjoy! (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Defender | Atari/Sears | arcade classic |
| Demon Attack | Imagic | arcade |
| Desert Falcon | Atari | arcade |
| Dig Dug | Atari | arcade classic |
| Donkey Kong | Coleco | arcade classic |
| Donkey Kong Junior | Coleco | arcade classic |
| Double Dunk | Atari | 2 on 2 basketball game that is graphically light year's beyond regular Atari Basketball, but I'd like to play this with someone actually into basketball. Scores a "4" (meaning "scarce" on the rarity list at AtariAge.com, so I guess this is hard to find. (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Dragonfire | Imagic | arcade |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Parker Bros. | arcade / based on Star Wars movie |
| Encounter at L-5 | Data Age | Space game, I guess, but it uses the paddles and mine are temporarily out of service. |
| Enduro | Activision | driving arcade game, possibly the BEST driving game for Atari. Very smooth graphics. Very fun. |
| E.T. The Extra Terresstrial | Atari | Adventure game? Based on E.T. movie |
| Flag Capture | Atari | puzzle game |
| Fast Eddie | 20th Century Fox | arcade game, based sort of on Donkey Kong in that it has levels, ladders & enemies to jump over... |
| Fast Food | Telesys | arcade, fast paced food eating / differentiating game |
| Final Approach | Apollo | I think that the deal here is to land airplanes, but judging from the screenshots on Atariage, I think you might also be battling extreme lethargy and boredom. Haven't played it yet, but this game hails from the Eric / Dirtbag donation of Atari games from earlier in 2005 when I put his band The Fashion Failures (from Pawtucket, RI) in my 'zine Action Geek. Seriously, "Dirtbag" is his nickname and I'm not just calling him that because he dumped Final Approach on me. (Other games from this gift bag collection will be labeled at the end of the review with (Dirtbag) so you'se all will know.(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Fire Fighter | Imagic | arcade |
| Fire Fly | Mythicon | awful awful game |
| Football | Atari | Sports, not all that fun |
| Frankenstein's Monster | Data Age | Haven't played it yet, but the instructions that came with it sound incredible... |
| Freeway | Activision | arcade, get that chicken across the freeway without getting smushed |
| Frogger | Parker Bros. | arcade, get that FROG across the freeway without getting smushed AND over the river to his pad |
| Front Line | Coleco | arcade, military... choppy movements, but still very fun multi-stage battle game |
| Galaxian | Atari | arcade classic |
| Ghost Manor - Spike's Peak | XONOX | This is my FIRST purchase of one of those 2 games in 1 XONOX double headers! I was so psyched about finding one of these within my chincy price range that just the mere HAVING the game is good enough for me (meaning: I haven't played EITHER game yet). (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| G.I. Joe - Cobra Strike | Parker Bros. | Having acquired the GRAY label version, I have just discovered from the folks at Atari Age that I have the less desirable label of the game. REAL collectors are seeking out the color label. Hell, I just bough the game because I didn't want to miss out on the whole GI Joe pseudo-revival of sorts... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Gopher | U.S. Games | um...gardening? |
| Grand Prix | Activision | arcade, racing game |
| Gravitar | Atari | Former Atari Club-only game. Actually very fun. Kinda tough, too... |
| Human Cannonball | Atari | arcade |
| Ice Hockey | Activision | |
| Infiltrate | Apollo | sports |
| James Bond 007 | Parker Bros. | This was up until now my HOLY GRAIL of video games to acquire and now that I have it & have played it, I'm not nearly as enthralled with it as I thought I would. I THOUGHT there was primarily alot of running and shooting at evil enemy spies while atop a train, but this game has more of a Moonraker & Diamonds are Forever feel to it... space & underwater. Hoo ha. |
| Journey Escape | Data Age | arcade, dumb game revolving around rock band, Journey |
| Joust | Atari | arcade, flying ostrich knights doing battle, shooting other flying things, avoiding lava... lotsa button pushing to flap those damned wings! |
| Jungle Hunt | Atari | arcade |
| Jr. Pac Man | Atari | arcade, THE best Pac Man game for Atari... 2nd is Ms. Pac Man... scrolling mazes, non-flickering ghosts, good speed.. fun!!! |
| Kaboom! | Activision | arcade, very FUN game where a mad bomber drops multiple series of bombs and you have to catch 'em in your buckets of water... very FAST... |
| Kangaroo | Atari | arcade |
| King Kong | Tigervision | Got this one off eBay, but it doesn't work, BUT it's in great aesthetic shape, so at least it looks good in my collection. |
| Kung-Fu Master | Activision | arcade |
| Keystone Kapers | Activision | arcade, fun cop vs. robber game in a dept. store. |
| Klax | Atari | Similar to Tetris, in a sense, in that it's a puzzle game, you have to match up rows or columns or diagonals of similarly colored bricks that fall from the sky. Pretty challenging! (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Krull | Atari | arcade / movie & comic book based... |
| Laser Blast | Activision | arcade |
| Laser Volley | Tigervision | My first Zellers cartridge. (See Atari Age for more info on Zellers. This game is actually a kinda obscure game by Imagic called "Laser Gates" except it's been repackaged. |
| Little Bear | no company | Chinese knock-off of Frostbite |
| Lost Luggage | Apollo | Lost Luggage is kinda like Kaboom! except that your job as the baggage handlers at an airport is to not miss any of the rapidly descending luggage. If you miss a bag, then you lose a guy and you get to see luggage open up and dispense various articles of clothing, yes, including a pixelated bra. (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Mario Bros. | Atari | arcade, the ORIGINAL Mario / Luigi game |
| M.A.S.H. | 20th Century Fox | arcade, based on TV show |
| Masters of the Universe / The Power of He-Man | Mattel | arcade, based on comic book |
| Maze Craze | Atari | puzzle game |
| Megamania | Activision | arcade, shooting lots and lots of oddball enemies a la Space Invaders except these things are MORE relentless |
| Midnight Magic | Atari | pinball/arcade... THE Pinball game for Atari... enhanced version of regular Video Pinball... |
| Millipede | Atari | arcade... like Centipede except there are MORE enemies, more features, more of everything... |
| Missile Command | Atari | arcade classic |
| Montezuma's Revenge | Parker Brothers | Great game! Akin to Pitfall, Donkey Kong, Fast Eddie and Adventure all rolled into one incredibly fun game to play. |
| Moon Patrol | Atari | arcade, if the moon craters, weird UFOs and/or the annoying music don't get you, something else will... |
| Mouse Trap | Coleco | arcade |
| Ms. Pac-Man | Atari | arcade |
| Omega Race | CBS Electronics | arcade |
| Pac-Man | Atari | arcade, BIG disappointment, but still an okay play... |
| Pac Man Arcade | Rob Kudla | Hands-down, this is THE definitive version of Atari Pac Man. You can read all about the changes made on the Atari Age website, but let me just tell you that this re-working by Rob Kudla takes the cake, power pellet, cherries, whatever... It's very much closer to the arcade version of Pac Man. I still like Ms. Pac Man and Jr. Pac Man with the scrolling mazes, but this one is a great addition to the family. (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Phoenix | Atari | arcade |
| Pitfall! | Activision | arcade / adventure... still can't get that swinging vine music out of my head... |
| Pitfall 2 | Activision | arcade / adventure... more depth to this follow-up, more fun... |
| Planet Patrol | Spectravision | arcade |
| Plaque Attack | Activision | arcade / dental... defending one's teeth from food with a toothpaste tube... sounds stupid, but it's FUN... |
| Pole Position | Atari | arcade / driving... Not nearly as good as Enduro, but still fun... (name mis-spelled on side of cartridge as "POLE POSITN") |
| Pooyan | Konami | A "pooyan" in Japanese, I guess, means "piglet" and in this game, Mama Pig's pooyans have been stolen by wolves and you're Mama Pig out to rescue them or something. Haven't played it that much, but it's cute anyway... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Pressure Cooker | Activision | arcade / great game where Fast Food is turned into a frantic problem-solving artform... |
| Q-Bert | Parker Brothers | arcade |
| Raft Rider | U.S. Games | Another case of the game not working, but the cartridge itself being in great shape. |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | Atari | adventure / problem solving... fun for a while, but then annoyingly difficult... 2 joystick game... |
| Realsports Baseball | Atari | sports |
| Realsports Football | Atari | sports |
| Realsports Volleyball | Atari | sports |
| Revenge of the Beefsteak Tomatoes | 20th Century Fox | arcade |
| Riddle of the Sphinx | Imagic | adventure / problem solving... annoyingly so... |
| River Raid | Activision | arcade / INCREDIBLE game... fly up-river, shoot stuff, refuel, avoid the walls, shoot bridges... great fun... |
| River Raid 2 | Activision | arcade / Baby brother to classic River Raid, except I can't seem to get the hang of dropping down, refueling and landing on the aircraft carrier... |
| Robot Tank | Activision | arcade / THE best 1st-person situated tank game... variable weather conditions, good sounds, good mobility... |
| Room of Doom | Comma Vid | arcade |
| Skateboardin' | Absolute Entertainment | sports / very RAD skateboarding game where you have to clear a certain number of obstacles like jumps, tubes, ramps, etc. |
| Seaquest | Activision | arcade / very well designed undersea sub shoot'em up game |
| Secret Quest | Atari | adventure / problem solving |
| Skeet Shoot | Apollo | I have an orange kitty named Skeeto and if these bastards at Apollo think they can just shoot my cat willy nilly in one of their fancy schmancy Atari cartridges well then they've got another thing comin'... Thanks, Rob Halford & Judas Priest... Haven't played this game yet either but I'd be willing to bet that it involves you triggering the release of a SKEET and then having to time your shot perfectly to SHOOT the SKEET. I'm just guessing, though. (Dirtbag)(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Skiing | Activision | sports |
| Sky Jinks | Activision | arcade |
| Sky Skipper | Parker Brothers | arcade |
| Slot Racers | Atari | arcade |
| Smurf | Coleco | arcade / kids... Years ago, I bought this for my sister, but then I gradually stole it away from her... |
| Sssnake | Data Age | Haven't played it yet. Why all the extra "S"'s in the name? Are they just being ssssilly? (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Solaris | Atari | arcade, COOL multi-stage space game akin to Imagic game "Cosmic Ark" |
| Sorcerer | Mythicon | awful game |
| Space Attack | Mattel | |
| Space Cavern | Apollo | arcade / silly sound effects |
| Space Chase | Apollo | arcade |
| Space Invaders | Atari | THE grand-daddy of arcade games |
| Space Jockey | U.S. Games | arcade, seemingly simple (almost TOO simple) space shooting game |
| Spider Fighter | Activision | arcade , VERY fast shoot'em up game involving arachnids, fruit and fire-power |
| Spy Hunter | Sega | I was very psyched to get this game, but it just didn't seem as playable or as fun as Enduro, Bump'n'Jump or even Activision's "Grand Prix". Still a nice find, though... |
| Squeeze Box | U.S. Games | arcade / Breakout-like game |
| Starmaster | Activision | arcade |
| Strategy X | Konami | You're driving a tank. You can't stop, because the screen is continually scrolling forward. You must avoid land obstacles lest ye be smashed to bits. You must shoot at the enemy tanks. You must avoid or shoot your way through walls to proceed on deeper into the game. Pretty fun game... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Super-Challenge Baseball | Mattel | sports |
| Super Ferrari | Taiwan ripoff | See Atari Landfill for news/explanation of these repackaged weirdo Taiwanese games. This game is a repackaged "Enduro". |
| Super Football | Atari | sports / light years better than regular Atari Football |
| Superman | Atari | adventure / thief-catching game |
| Surround | Atari | arcade / VERY fun 2 player game where you try to surround your opponent with a wall, while they do the same to you... |
| Swordquest Earthworld | Atari | adventure / puzzle game |
| Swordquest Fireworld | Atari | adventure / puzzle game |
| Tac-Scan | Sega | arcade / awful game |
| Tapeworm | Spectravision | Any game company gutsy enough to call their game "Tapeworm" is cool in my book. Hell, I'd even buy them a beer and maybe even a second beer IF this game turned out to be as cool to PLAY as it is to laugh hysterically at the name and the funky silver & 70s striped cartridge. (Dirtbag)(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Tapper | Sega | This was one of my holy grail games to find! It's the ultimate combination of beer and Atari in game form. You play the bartender having to serve 4 long bars, shooting beers down the bars to surly, thirsty customers. Then they send the mugs back to you. Serve beer, catch mugs, don't screw up. AND there's even a shell game mini-game to Tapper, AND the graphics are really good! AND it progesses rather aggressively to faster & more challenging levels & configurations of bars. VERY cool game. (Info from AtariAge.com) - (even more of a review at: Video Game Critic) - (AND even more at: AtariPrototypes.com) |
| Task Force | Froggo Games | arcade / awful game |
| Taz | Atari | arcade / kids game |
| Tennis | Activision | sports |
| Thunderground | Sega | arcade, tunnelling, shooting, kinda fun game |
| Title Match Pro Wrestling | Absolute Entertainment | Haven't played it yet. Looks like a great 2-player fighting game. The company was founded by an ex-Activision guy, hence alot of this co's line of games look really good for Atari games.(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Tom Boy | Taiwan ripoff | See Atari Landfill for news/explanation of these repackaged weirdo Taiwanese games. This game is a repackaged "Pitfall". |
| Towering Inferno | U.S. Games | Seemingly endless game involving battling fire on each floor of this burning building. Fun, but still kinda tedious.(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Tron Deadly Discs | Mattel | arcade, based on movie |
| Tutankham | Parker Brothers | arcade / Egyptian-motif Indiana Jones idea game |
| Vanguard | Atari | arcade, multi-stage shooting things game |
| Venture | Coleco | arcade |
| Video Chess | Atari | it's chess.... CHESS, godammit... how else can I explain this? |
| Video Pinball | Atari | classic pinball |
| Wall Ball | Avalon Hill | Yeah, you heard me, WALL BALL. I got the game from my stepmom who was sifting through stuff to put on eBay and I asked her if I could have Wall Ball and she said "yes". Always say "yes" to Wall Ball. Let that be a lesson to you. Haven't played it yet, but I guess it might be a rare one as it was Sports Illustrated magazine-sponsored. I dunno. AtariAge.com gives it a 7.(Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Winter Games | Epyx | sports |
| Wizard of Wor | CBS | arcade |
| Worm War I | 20th Century Fox | arcade |
| Xenophobe | Atari | Haven't played it yet, but I got it boxed WITH its instruction manual from a guy in England off eBay! I'll let you know all about it after I've played it... (Info from AtariAge.com) |
| Zaxxon | Coleco | arcade / pseudo 3D flying shooting game |
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