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This 1988 ad is for the initial computer ports of Gauntlet and Paperboy which were done by Mindscape. Gauntlet started life as an arcade ...

Crossbow started life as an arcade game developed by Exidy in 1983. In 1987, it was ported to a number of platforms including the Atari 2...

Atari Football, also known as just Football and most commonly RealSports Football, is a very early and very rudimentary football video ga...

The SwordQuest games were meant to be a series of four action/adventure games produced by Atari for the Atari 2600. Each game was meant t...

The Pawn was an adventure game originally released for the Sinclair QL in 1985 by a company called Magnetic Scrolls and then ported to a ...

This Atari ad for the Atari 400 and Atari 800 computers emphasizes the useful productivity things you can do with Atari computers. Atari ...

Above is an ad for various Atari 8-bit hardware sold by a mail-order company called CMO. This ad is from the February 1987 issue of ANALO...

Asteroids Deluxe in an arcade game released by Atari in 1981 as a sequel to the original Asteroids. An experienced player could employ st...

Sears has this weird thing they do where they contract with outside manufacturers to produce items for their store and then sell it under...

I am an older gamer and being old doesn't bother me at all. I was around when the Atari 2600 hit the shelves and quickly became a part o...

Atari Club was an Atari fan club of sorts you could join for $1. For your dollar you got a subscription to Atari Age and discounts on var...

Though it may not be as true today, in the 1980s you could almost always count on a Lucasfilm game (or Epyx game for that matter) to be o...

Jumpman was an early action platform game released in 1983. It was released initially for the Atari 8-bit then ported to the Commodore 64...

You might not think of the Atari 2600 as a system with a lot of hardware expansions but there really were quite a few of them over the ye...

Both Star Wars and the Atari 2600 came out in 1977. You would think they would be a match made in heaven with tons of Star Wars games com...

Private Eye, released in 1983, is one of the more obscure Activision releases for the Atari 2600. You play the role of private investigat...

Spider Fighter, released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 (VCS), is a pretty average game for that system. The game could best be described as ...

I'm showing my age by revealing this but it is actually true and I was, just like everyone else that got duped with the marketing, genuin...

Cover of the May 1985 issue of Antic Antic was one of the major 8-bit Atari magazines published in the U.S. It also covered the Atari ST ...

Star Wars: The Arcade Game was how most of the home ports of the Star Wars arcade game were titled. The original arcade game was an impr...

Cover of the May 1985 issue of ANALOG Computing There were a couple of good Atari 8-bit magazines published in the U.S. Overall, I think ...

Cover of the November 1984 issue of ANALOG Computing ANALOG Computing was probably the most popular Atari 8-bit computer magazine publish...

I suppose that it can be forgiven that I made this really awful purchase considering the time period that it came out in. The internet a...

Cover of the July 1986 issue of ANALOG Computing ANALOG computing was probably the best Atari 8-bit computer magazine published in the U....

https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress/index.php/2016/06/06/jawbreaker-atari-2600-review/ Well over 500 games were released for the Atari...

Skydiver was a very early arcade game by Atari. It was released in 1978 and was black and white with a color overlay. Game play was prett...

Here we have the very first video game to feature a light saber and also what is generally considered to be one of the worst Star Wars ga...

Entombed was released by U.S. Games for the Atari 2600 in 1982. Given the massive number of clones and rushed games on the Atari 2600, pa...

Donkey Kong, released in 1981, was Nintendo's first big arcade success. Over the years it has been converted to a massive number of game ...

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