Atari 2600 News

Underwater Predator is a new Atari VCS game by Declan Hoare who also goes by the nick ThatDude. You are a shark swimming underwater, surprisingly. You have to eat the golden fish while avoiding black fish, which are rotten but somehow still alive and swimming. Bon Appétit! Read more about Underwater Predator v2.1 (A2600 Game)

Although we have seen many homebrew games around the net the past years Game Panic LCD seems to be different. In how far different you may ask? Well it has a LCD game / Game & Watch game feeling, but is for the Atari VCS. Responsible for this piece of work is theloon along with John Hancock. The game is explained quite easy: Dash to the other side of the screen for points! Read more about Game Panic LCD (23-06-2014) (A2600 Game)

Atarius Maximus makes Atari VCS users happy once again with his new game Touchdown Challenge. The object is to run past the defenders and score a touchdown. The pattern changes when you score. Most of the players run slowly down the field, but there is one who will relentlessly chase you. If you get tackled, the score resets. It needs a lot of polish but is very playable and kind of fun. Read more about Touchdown Challenge v2 (A2600 Game)

Thomas Jentzsch bring us Three.s for the Atari VCS. The game was earlier called 2^11 which basically equals into 2048. Now from this point on, there is probably not much more to tell. Enjoy the game! Read more about Three.s v0.9 (Atari 2600 Game)

Palomino is a puzzle game for Atari 2600 by Seemo. Read more about Palomino (10-05-2014) (Atari 2600 Game)

In Tumulus by yllawwally you are an adventurer, out to stop the fiends coming from Tumulus. This game is inspired by Golden Axe. Read more about Tumulus (r28) (A2600 Game)

SpiceWare is on the way to teach you how to destroy space stations in their new game Draconian. Use the radar, located at the bottom of the screen between the score and lives remaining, to find the stations in relation to yourself. Destroy the stations by taking out all six pods. Read more about Draconian (13-05-2014) (A2600 Game)

Flappy, a Flappy Bird style game, for Atari VCS has been updated. Read more about Flappy v11 RC2 (A2600 Game)

The goal in Snappy by Sebastian Mihai is to get as many men across Snappy's pit as possible. Each game starts with ten men, and each of them gets parachuted at a random spot, so you have to time your jumps well. Only one button is used - fire. It will start a new game when on the menu screen, and it will cause a man to start running, trying to make it across the pit. Read more about Snappy (15-01-2012) (A2600 Game)

Seriously... is there any reason the Atari VCS should be not having a Flappy Bird style game? Oh wait... thanks to iesposta there is actually a game very similar to it named Flappy. Read more about Flappy v6 (A2600 Game)