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- The list contains 517 games, divided into three sections:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_2600_games
The list contains 517 games, divided into three sections: Games published by Atari and Sears. Games published by third parties. Hobbyist-developed games after the system was discontinued. The console was released with nine cartridges: Air-Sea Battle, Basic Math, Blackjack, Combat, Indy 500, Star Ship, Street Racer, Surround and Video Olympics.
Jan 13, 2009 · In the mean while, the list of Atari 2600 titles in the classic game play tracker has grown from 925 to 1000 games in just under three years, and that is despite me as the moderator have actively tried to combine duplicates and trivial hacks.
In November 2021, the current incarnation of Atari announced three 2600 games to be published under "Atari XP" label: Yars' Return, Aquaventure, and Saboteur. [107] These were previously included in Atari Flashback consoles.
- The Illusion of Competition
- Cutthroat Competition
- Consolidation
The illusion of competition came from Sears. Atari sold a private label version of the Atari 2600 through Sears called the Sears Video Arcade. And that makes things confusing. Sears sold their own versions of 58 titles. They had an Atari copyright on the cartridge and the box, but had the Sears and Tele-Games names plastered all over the cartridge ...
Initially, first-party titles were the only titles game consoles got. The company that made the hardware also sold the software. In some cases, the engineers who designed the hardware even wrote some game cartridges. But the authors of several popular Atari games grew unhappy. They were writing popular titles and outselling their peers, but they al...
The flood of low quality titles led to the video game crash of 1983. Atari changed ownership, retreated from the game console market, and tried to focus on computers. Then in 1986, Atari decided to try again. And in many cases, those third party publishers weren’t in good enough financial shape to come back, or didn’t want to. Atari licensed some t...
Feb 11, 2024 · There are a total of 470 games made for the groundbreaking Atari 2600 gaming system. The Atari Video Computer System, later known as the Atari 2600 in November 1982, first released in North America on September 11, 1977 with 9 cartridges.
There are 601 video games on Atari 2600. They were released between the years 1977 and 2023. 512 people from 187 developers and publishers are credited with these titles!
Atari Atari 1981 Wing War: Imagic Imagic 1983 Winter Games: Epyx Epyx 1987 Wizard of Wor: Roklan Corporation CBS Electronics 1982 Word Zapper: James Wickstead Design Associates U.S. Games 1982 Worm War I: Sirius Software 20th Century Fox 1982 X-man: Mystique Universal Gamex 1983 Xenophobe: Atari Atari 1990 Yars' Revenge: Atari Atari 1982 The ...
