Best of Atari 2600

[hedwards]

Yeah, centipede was a good one. I remember really liking Vanguard, Atlantis (Which is on its way as I speak), adventure and that Shoot out game. I must admit that without the manual I found Riddle of the Sphinx to be the most perplexing game ever.

 

[cubelindo]

Nobody said ADVENTURE? That game took most of my childhood!


Superman is also cool, plus many others that have been said before, including the awesome Supercharger games!


There are many new homebrew games (Halo 2600 is one of them) I still buy like 2-3 Atari 2600 games per year, the homebrew community is very active (just take a look at AtariAge website)

 

[Prometheus]

^ I love Adventure. I got to play it for the first time earlier in the year, and I found it thoroughly engrossing. That bat is evil!! :lol:

 

[- Theo -]

I was really young (about 9) when I had my VCS2600, and I had only two games with it: Space Invaders and Defender.


But I remember having played the crap out of them, and Defender is the first game I ever finished. Ah these were the times...

 

[larry]

We got an Atari 2600 in 1979 if I remember correctly. So adding some old school picks to the games already mentioned:


Turmoil


Adventures Of Tron


Beany Bopper


Tunnel Hunt


Capture The Flag (2 player)


Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back


Carnival


Solaris is a magnificent programming achievement, but I never got into it as a game.


And everyone should try exploring outside the level data in Mountain King at least once.

 

[Poem58]

I was really young (about 9) when I had my VCS2600, and I had only two games with it: Space Invaders and Defender.


But I remember having played the crap out of them, and Defender is the first game I ever finished. Ah these were the times...

That's the thing about gaming back then. Half the time we would play the same game every day for months. Most of those games you more or less had to imagine what some of the graphics were yet somehow 30 years later, they can be remembered more fondly then the flashy excellent graphics games of today. The only thing I dreamed of in Atari days were games that were longer, more involved with more options. Like Donkey Kong with all the levels, or Pitfall with new area's to explore. Games like Star Raiders were awesome to me cause you could control and lose shields and engines and weapons. It was never about the graphics.


I hope the extra Pandora buttons will allow for control of Star Raiders. I would recommend that one too.

 

[superatarian]

My favorite has to be Yar's Revenge. I played that to death and


still do now. Great game.

 

[dannyowelch]

Here's a few of my favorites that I didn't see listed (apologies if I duplicated any):


Atlantis


Basketball (my brother and I laughed our butts off playing this)


Boxing (another game we played together and still do every time he visits)


Commando Raid


Enduro (Great racer... similar to the arcade Turbo)


Entombed


Fast Food


Haunted House


Megamania


Raiders of the Lost Ark


River Raid

 

[Stereoscopic_Panda]

Vangaurd

 

[CFWhitman]

Well, most of the ones I remember well have been mentioned. The one exception I can think of at the moment is Chopper Command

 

[GiraffeeDreams]

River Raid and it's sequel, 'nuff sed.


Pong is good too, although my paddles broke so I can't play it now

 

[ckblackm]

The best thing you could do with a 2600 was to get rid of it and grab an intellivision with a system changer.. then you


could run the stuff from both.


(I still have a working setup that allows me to play both from 1 machine... and I've got a decent supply (> 100) of


intellivision cartridges


Christopher. (*applies flame retardant suit now*)

 

[Jourdy288]

Hey look, Halo on the Pandora!

It's called Halo 2600, made by Ed Fries.


Was a limited time release at a classic gaming expo recently.


You can now pick up the rom here: Halo 2600


Pretty funny actually, though I guess it doesn't count as an official retro Atari game

You beat me to it, that game's pretty awesome!

 

[demonstar3]

One of the games I've been playing for the Atari 2600 is Lock n Chase.


Pretty addictive


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBGk-hxMfz0