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February – Atari releases Haunted House for the 2600, which is later considered one of the first survival horror games. March – Atari's Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man hits stores. April – Activision releases Pitfall!, which goes on to sell 4 million copies. May – Atari releases Yars' Revenge.
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 1977. Sears licensed the console and many games from Atari, Inc., selling them under different names. Three cartridges were Sears exclusives.
Atari TitleSears TitleDesigner Or Programmer32 in 1-19883-D Tic-Tac-ToeAdventureTarget FunMay 31, 2007 · From 1978-1980 I worked in a video store that sold Atari 2600 and Intellivision games. My memory is that the Atari games cost about $35 bucks each (more if it came with special controllers or the like). I believe that there were places where the games could be bought a little cheaper (like Toys R Us) but $35 is the amount that sticks in my head.
Mar 21, 2024 · In 1982, Nintendo brought Donkey Kong home, releasing it across the spectrum of available consoles, from the Game & Watch and Atari 2600 to Intellivision and ColecoVision.
- Mattel Stumbles, While Atari Face-Plants
- Pac-Man
- Grand Prix
- Demon Attack
- Pitfall!
Mattel began to run into trouble with its Intellivision once the company tried to branch out from sports games. Because Mattel couldn’t license properties from Atari, Nintendo, or Sega, it instead made its own translations of popular arcade games. Many looked better than what you’d find on the 2600, but ultimately played more slowly thanks to the I...
The single biggest image-shattering event for the 2600—and Atari itself—was the home release of its Pac-Man cartridge. I can still feel the crushing disappointment even now. So many of my friends and I looked forward to this release. We had talked about it all the time in elementary school. Pac-Man was simply the hottest thing around in the arcades...
The next few games we’ll discuss further illustrate the quality improvements upstart third-party developers delivered, in comparison with Atari, which had clearly become too comfortable in its lead position. First up is Activision’s Grand Prix, which in hindsight was a bit of an odd way to design a racer. It’s a side-scroller on rails that runs fro...
At first glance, the visually striking Demon Attack looks kind of like a copy of the arcade game Phoenix, at least without the mothership screen (something it does gain in the Intellivision port). But the game comes into its own the more you play it. You’re stuck on the planet Krybor. Birdlike demons dart around and shoot clusters of lasers down to...
A watershed moment in video game history, David Crane’s Pitfall! was one of the best games released for the 2600. As Pitfall Harry, your goal is to race through the jungle and collect 32 treasures—money bags, silver bars, gold bars, and diamond rings, worth from 2,000 to 5,000 points each. Jump and grab vines, and you soar over lakes, quicksand, an...
An August 1984 InfoWorld magazine article says more than 15 million Atari 2600 machines were sold by 1982. [26] A March 1983 article in IEEE Spectrum magazine has about 3 million VCS sales in 1981, about 5.5 million in 1982, as well as a total of over 12 million VCS systems and an estimated 120 million cartridges sold.
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The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco's arcade game Pac-Man, for the third year in a row, while the year's best-selling home system was the Atari 2600 (Atari VCS). Additional video game consoles added to a crowded market, notably the ColecoVision and Atari 5200 .
