10 of my favorite Atari 2600 Games - Name yours!

[OldSchoolGamer]

Re: Top 10 Atari 2600 Games - WAIT here me out, YES lists are stupid and pointless but I am just curious to see how everyone's compares and which titles seem to repeat or not ;) Anyone "old" and grew up with Atari 2600 like me? Of course even if you didn't grow up with it or came to discover it much later in life you are welcome to list your top 10 favs! Off the top of my head I will go with -

1. Space Invaders.
2. Vanguard.
3. River Raid.
4. Pitfall.
5. Asteroids.
6. Kaboom !
7. Keystone Kapers.
8. Demon Attack.
9. Super Breakout.
10. Missile Command.

:D Good times, feel like I grew up through the history of gaming and still love it!

[celerystalker]

1. Warlords
2. Frogger
3. Pitfall
4. Solar Fox
5. Asteroids
6. Space Invaders
7. Space Cavern
8. Combat
9. Maze Craze
10. Air Sea Battle

[YoshiM]

Oh boy....it's been awhile since I thought of the 2600.

1. Solaris
2. Cosmic Ark
3. Spider Fighter
4. Warlords
5. Keystone Kapers
6. Starmaster
7. Spy Hunter
8. Haunted House
9. Circus Atari
10. Vanguard

[OldSchoolGamer]

Thanks guys! Damn you reminded me of some greats lol!

[Steve W]

In no particular order...

Escape from the Mindmaster - The first game I bought for the Supercharger, and it was amazing. Its impressive 3D viewpoint blew me away.
Adventure - What needs to be said?
Dark Cavern - What's better than a good maze game? Being able to shoot your pursuers! Can't even tell you how many hours I spent on this.
Ixion - An unreleased port of an unreleased Sega arcade game, played it at a gaming convention a decade ago and had to own it.
Juno First - A suprisingly strong homebrew port of the arcade game, kind of a third-person perspective version of Defender. If I had a copy back in the day I would have played it until my eyes bled.
Lock N’ Chase - A great Pac-Man substitute with the option of creating barricades behind yourself. I got this one free from Mattel, and played it constantly.
Pitfall II - Again, what's there to say? It's brilliant.
Riddle of the Sphinx - A nice attempt at creating a game with depth on the 2600.
Secret Quest - A great little adventure game with a slightly high difficulty level. I got it after it came out (after seeing it in the Atarian Magazine) but never managed to get past the fourth station.
Phaser Patrol - Another Supercharger game, it put all the other 3D space shooters on the system to shame. And when you "fry" it, enemy ships become invisible until they're on top of you. :)

[ave1]

Here are mine:

Dodge 'Em
Lock n Chase
NightDriver
Battlezone
Pole Position
Ms. Pac-Man
Phaser Patrol
Missile Command
Solar Fox
Mountain King

[danny_galaga]

Back in the day it was all about Space Invaders and Combat. I don't remember much else so they are favourites for sentimental reasons. Nowadays I really dig Missile Command (",)

[Emperor Megas]

I haven't thought about this in a while, but some of my favorites off the top of my head:

● Keystone Kapers (is definitely my favorite)

● Chopper Command
● Demon Attack
● Freeway (I thought this game was HILARIOUS in 2 player as a kid)
● Frogger
● Lock 'N Chase
● Missle Command
● Pitfall
● Raiders of the Lost Ark (really)
● River Raid (maybe)

[Daniel Thomas]

As always, there are too many good games to mention. But here are 10 that come to mind when I think of Atari 2600 VCS:

Yars' Revenge
Warlords
Space Invaders
Missile Command
Ms Pac-Man
Solaris
Stargate
Fast Food
River Raid
Solar Fox

Oof, what a lame list. I know Pitfall 2 should be there, but I always played the Atari 800 version, which was always just a little better.

Honorable Mention: Gopher by US Games. Seriously, I loved that video game when I was a kid, even though it was kinda violent (you crush gophers with a shovel). I was also crazy addicted to Fast Food by Telesys, enough to buy all their Atari games (Cosmic Creeps was okay). Solar Fox was spectacular, better than the arcade IMHO, but the touchy controls just made me want to break things. I wish some indie programmer would just tweak that game so the steering would be perfect. And Jr Pac-Man was fantastic but brutally hard. I don't believe I've ever seen all the levels. But it was super-cool to play in 1987.

[Casati]

Star Wars Empire Strikes Back
Space Invaders
Pitfall!
Mr Do!
Q*Bert
Frogger
River Raid
Beamrider
Gopher
Alien

[Scotterpop]

Some of my favorites include:

Berzerk
Pitfall 2
Keystone Capers
Phoenix
River Raid
Starmaster
Spider Fighter
Combat
Asteroids
Adventure

I'm a little partial to classic Activision titles! : )

Honorable mentions would go to: Journey Escape (I love that chip tune version of "Don't Stop Believin'" at the beginning of the game), Circus Atari (my favorite paddle game), Return of the Jedi Death Star Battle, and Dragonfire.

[retroman]

Can not believe know one had Dragonfire on the list.

[Scotterpop]

Can not believe know one had Dragonfire on the list.

Hey, at least I gave it an honorable mention! Dragonfire really is one of those criminally underrated Atari games.

[Gamevet]

In no particular order.

Omega Race
Missile Command
Kaboom!
Warlords
Pitfall
Empire Strikes Back
Defender
Space Invaders
Ms. PAC-MAN
Asteroids

[hackfly]

Can I just name 5?

Star Wars
Pitfall
Asteroids
Haunted Hause
Moon Patrol

[A.C. Sativa]

Custer's Revenge
Beat Em' and Eat Em'
Cathouse Blues
Philly Flasher
Burning Desire
Gigolo
Bachelor Party
Knight on the Town
X-Man
Westward Ho

[BlastProcessing402]

Had to play them at other kids' housed (we only had Intellivision in that era) but I remember loving Megamania and Spider Fighter when I got to play those.

[Yago]

Pitfall!
Pitfall 2:Lost Caverns
Destruction Herby
Starmaster
Atlantis
Adventure
Jungle Hunt
Maze Craze
Berzerk
Megamania

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

Custer's Revenge
Beat Em' and Eat Em'
Cathouse Blues
Philly Flasher
Burning Desire
Gigolo
Bachelor Party
Knight on the Town
X-Man
Westward Ho

Thanked for giving me a laugh.

[WelcomeToTheNextLevel]

I was born in 1992, so I didn't grow up in the Atari 2600 era. That said, I do have two 2600s (one Atari, and one Sears Atari that used to be my mom's back in the early '80s) and played a handful of games.

Dodge 'Em
Pitfall
Space Invaders
Super Breakout
Combat
Towering Inferno
Tunnel Runner (3D on Atari? AWESOME!)
Haunted House
Mangia (LOL)
ET (my mom loved it as a kid, so it gets in on that alone, plus it's not THAT bad of a game)

[Slate]

I probably have a longer list but off the top of my head:

H.E.R.O.
Keystone Kapers
Towering Inferno

- Austin