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List of Atari 2600 games

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List of Atari 2600 games
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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.

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The list is divided into three sections:

  1. Games published by Atari and Sears
  2. Games published by third parties
  3. Hobbyist-developed games after the system was discontinued.

In total, 472 games were released during the system's lifetime. The console was released with nine cartridges: Air-Sea Battle, Basic Math, Blackjack, Combat, Indy 500, Star Ship, Street Racer, Surround and Video Olympics. The final licensed Atari 2600 games released in North America were Ikari Warriors, MotoRodeo, Sentinel, and Xenophobe in early 1991,[1] and the final licensed games released in Europe were Klax and Acid Drop in 1990 and 1992 respectively. Since 2023, Atari has released games designed for the system via the Atari 2600+.

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Games published by Atari and Sears

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All 38 of the initial era of Atari 2600 games (between the console's launch in 1977 and the summer of 1980) were developed and manufactured by Atari, Inc. These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears, which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles.[2] Sears's Tele-Games brand was unrelated to the company Telegames, which also produced cartridges for the Atari 2600 (mostly re-issues of M Network games.)[3]

Three games were also produced by Atari Inc. for Sears as exclusive releases under the Tele-Games brand: Steeplechase, Stellar Track, and Submarine Commander.[2]

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Official aftermarket releases

In the 2020s, Atari released the Atari 2600+, an emulation-based mini console, and began producing game cartridges which were compatible with that system as well as original 2600 hardware.

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Multi-game cartridges

Atari released one official multicart for the Atari 2600 in the 1980s, in PAL regions only. They have also released several multicarts starting in the 2020s, primarily consisting of reissued games, though the RealSports Collection cartridge includes one new release, RealSports Basketball.

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Games published by third parties

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As the Atari 2600 console grew in popularity, in 1980[20] other game developers, such as Activision and Imagic, entered the market and published more than 380 of their own cartridges for the Atari 2600. Many of the best-selling Atari 2600 games, such as Pitfall! and Demon Attack, are third-party games.[21]

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Xonox double-sided cartridges

Xonox released many of their games as "2-in-1" cartridges, with one game on each side. All such games were also available individually.

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Non-game cartridges

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Homebrew games

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The Atari 2600 has been a popular platform for homebrew projects, with 6 games publicly released. Unlike later systems, the Atari 2600 does not require a modchip to run cartridges. Many games are clones of existing games written as programming challenges,[43] often borrowing the name of the original.

In 2003, Activision selected several games for inclusion in the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology, as indicated below.[44]

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Prototypes

  • Dumbo's Flying Circus (Atari)[64]
  • Frog Pond (Atari)[65]
  • Polo (Atari)[66]
  • Save the Whales (Atari)[67]

Additional titles

Included with Atari Flashback 9 / Flashback 9 Gold

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  1. Adventure II
  2. Asteroids Deluxe
  3. Atari Climber
  4. Burnin’ Rubber
  5. Championship Soccer
  6. Chase It!
  7. Combat Two
  8. Decathlon
  9. Escape It!
  10. Miss It!
  11. RealSports Basketball
  12. Return to Haunted House
  13. Saboteur
  14. Shield Shifter
  15. Space Raid
  16. Strip Off
  17. Tempest
  18. Wizard

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