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    Default 10 of my favorite Atari 2600 Games - Name yours!

    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.

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    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

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    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

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

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    Here are mine:

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

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

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    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.
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    Can not believe know one had Dragonfire on the list.

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    Quote Originally Posted by retroman View Post
    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.
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    In no particular order.

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

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    Can I just name 5?

    Star Wars
    Pitfall
    Asteroids
    Haunted Hause
    Moon Patrol

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    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

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    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.C. Sativa View Post
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    Beat Em' and Eat Em'
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    Burning Desire
    Gigolo
    Bachelor Party
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    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 ()
    ET (my mom loved it as a kid, so it gets in on that alone, plus it's not THAT bad of a game)
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