Asteroids
Asteroids was a runaway smash hit for Atari in the arcades, so there was...
Tag Archives: VCS
Bowling
In general, bowling is not a game that translates well into the world of...
Explosive Diarrhea Review for the Atari 2600
Episode 17 – This week on the show I review Explosive Diarrhea, a homebrew...
Golf
I would never suggest that it would be easy to create a golf game...
Keystone Kapers
Lifting its name from the old “Keystone Kops” films of the silent film era,...
Keystone Kapers Review for the Atari 2600
Episode 11 – This week on the show, Keystone Cops meets the Atari VCS,...
Midnight Magic
This game makes the earlier Video Pinball for the VCS look downright awful. Midnight...
Oink!
Activision is famous for the quality of their VCS titles, but this game is...
Replacing the PCB in Your Atari CX-10 “Heavy-Sixer” Joystick
Atari joysticks are very simple devices, and as such there isn’t much that can...
River Raid
The mother of all vertically-scrolling shoot-em-ups! In River Raid, you control a fighter jet...
Seaquest
Seaquest is yet another stellar arcade-style game from the folks at Activision. The game...
Sky Jinks
Similar in principle to slalom skiing, in Sky Jinks you race through a pylon...
Spider Fighter
Sometimes I don’t understand where designers came up with their game ideas back in...
Video Pinball
The first time I played it, I really hated this game. It reminded me...