33 replies to this topic

[BillyHW]

I need a distraction folks. Recommend me some atari 2600 games I may not have heard of that are good. Never owned an Atari.

BTW, I'm playing at www.2600online.com.

[NickelPlate]

Some of the best games IMHO for the 2600 were the Imagic titles. Cosmic Ark (my personal favorite), Demon Attack and Atlantis are all fantastic.

[Syntaxerror999]

Enduro, pitfall, berzerk, yars revenge, spider fighter, dragonfire, haunted house, adventure, vanguard, H.E.R.O., pac-man, tutankan, and if you get the instructions and overlays (both on this site) space shuttle

[Rick Weis]

Frogs and flies great 2 player game!

Rick

[Cortat G]

Frostbite, Kool-Aid Man, Journey Escape, Adventure, Sprintmaster, Kaboom!, Tennis, Mario Bros.

Are some of my Personal Favorites


HEY! 2600online.com! That's where I First played Atari Games! Very Cool Website!

Edited by Cortat G, Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:55 PM.

[jdrose]

Phoenix, Frogger, Quadrun and Missile Command.

[atari181]

Jawbreaker, so fun!

[roberto]

Try Montezuma's Revenge! that's one of my personal favorites

[krypton85]

I'll second Kaboom!, but you kind of need to use the paddles for it to be awesome.

[BillyHW]

krypton85, on Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:57 PM, said:

I'll second Kaboom!, but you kind of need to use the paddles for it to be awesome.

Yeah, maybe not so much fun with the keyboard.

[pacpix]

Berzerk, Wizard of Wor, Ms. Pac-Man, and Keystone Kapers!

[bomberpunk]

Cortat G, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:53 PM, said:

HEY! 2600online.com! That's where I First played Atari Games! Very Cool Website!

i played my first atari games on a sixer, on a black & white Zenith tv. it took forever for the picture to "warm up" and display. you kids and your crazy facespace pages and twatter accounts.

anyway, i highly recommend Enduro / H.E.R.O. / Warlords / Kangaroo / Circus Atari

[Deteacher]

Rick Weis, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:52 PM, said:

Frogs and flies great 2 player game!

Rick

Armor Ambush is another great 2-player game.

[Amstari]

Strawberry Shortcake Musical Matchups

[getbent]

Jawbreaker, Quick Step, Pengo, Secret Quest, Fathom, Laser Gates

[7800Lover]

Haunted House is a must-have! Also, be sure to get Keystone Kapers and Pitfall. Pigs in Space is three games in one - hard to argue with that.

[Animan]

[simbalion]

bomberpunk, on Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:22 AM, said:

Cortat G, on Wed Feb 8, 2012 7:53 PM, said:

HEY! 2600online.com! That's where I First played Atari Games! Very Cool Website!

i played my first atari games on a sixer, on a black & white Zenith tv. it took forever for the picture to "warm up" and display. you kids and your crazy facespace pages and twatter accounts.

anyway, i highly recommend Enduro / H.E.R.O. / Warlords / Kangaroo / Circus Atari

Sounds like you had a full tube TV set or a very slow solid state set. Wouldn't surprise me as the old Zenith sets held up forever. I have one that needs a few tubes to get back to 100%, but it still lives.

[chuckwalla]

Play Solaris.
You'll be cursing your brains out but coming back for more.

[cvga]

Beamrider! You won't want to play anything else!

[Ranthulfr]

Using a keyboard? Hmm... try Demon Attack.

[Miss 2600]

I used a keyboard the first time I played Bank Heist, and still loved it enough to include it on my Top 10 Atari 2600 games list.

[Curious Sofa]

Ooh, Bank Heist is sweet. Still trying to find a CIB copy of that one....

But my recommendation for that website is Cakewalk. Doable with the keyboard, fun, strange. And too expensive to reasonably buy on cartridge.

[Dino]

Curious Sofa, on Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:27 PM, said:

Ooh, Bank Heist is sweet. Still trying to find a CIB copy of that one....

But my recommendation for that website is Cakewalk. Doable with the keyboard, fun, strange. And too expensive to reasonably buy on cartridge.

Buy a PAL version and adjust your V Hold

[Miss 2600]

Fast Eddie is pretty fun to play on the keyboard.