Atari 2600 Game List

[+KaeruYojimbo]

OK, let me know if I missed any, but here are the main companies that released original (i.e. not pirate, not re-releases of other companies' games) games for the 2600:

 

Atari (actually did re-release a few games by other companies in the late 80's though)

Absolute

Activision

Apollo

Answer

Avalon Hill

CBS

Coleco

CommaVid

Data Age

Epyx

Imagic

Konami

Parker Bros.

M-Network

Milton Bradley

Mystique

Mythicon

Sega

Spectravision

Starpath

Telesys

Tigervision

U.S. Games

Wizard

Xonox (released their games individually and in various 2-in-1 double-enders)

20th Century Fox

 

Most Sears branded games are relabeled Atari games, but 3 were released only as Sears games, Submarine Commander, Stellar Track and Steeplechase

 

Several other small companies released 1 game each, but most of these are ridiculously rare (Tax Avoiders by American Videogame and BMX Airmaster by TNT being the main exceptions. Rare, but not ridiculously rare.).

 

If you're looking for "official" U.S. 2600 games, those are the games I'd stick to. Games from Froggo, Panda, Zellers, Zimag, etc. are re-releases. Some of them might be the only U.S. releases of those games, but they aren't original titles.

[high voltage]

Yeah that's a very good list, here's some others with small or 1 releases

 

Amiga

Answer Software (did also the first Cheat device PGP-1)

Control Video Coperation (first online gaming cart)

Dynacom (MegaBoy)

Exus (pre-NES exercise mat)

First Star (Boing!)

Gakken/Konami

Gammation (Gamma-Attack)

HES (My Golf)

Inspirational Video Concepts (Red Sea Crossing)

ITT Family Games (they count in my book)

Johnson and Johnson (Tooth Protectors)

Personal Game Company (Birthday Mania)

Salu (Acid Drop)

Sancho (Forest)

Selcho and Righter (Glib)

Simage (Eli's Ladder)

Skill Screen Games (Extra Terrestrials)

Sparrow (The Music Machine)

Technovision

Telegames (Universal Chaos, Glacier Patrol)

Ubi Soft (Pick n Pile)

Ultravision (Condor Attack)

Universal Gamex (X Man)

VentureVision (Rescue Terra 1)

Video Gems

Video Soft

 

Men-A-Vision (Air Raid) Space Jockey based, but I think it counts because of its uniqueness

 

Some of these companies had more games planned or in the pipline

 

 

 

 

Oh not forgetting: HALO (Ed Fries), Cubicolor (Rob Fulop)

Edited March 20, 2016 by high voltage

[+KaeruYojimbo]

Some of those I left off because I was focusing on NTSC releases. Universal Chaos and Glacier Patrol were both unreleased games developed by other companies, so I left Telegames off since they mainly did re-releases, even if they were the only ones to releases those two.

 

Air Raid counts. It re-uses some of the Space Jockey code, but the gameplay and graphics are different enough.

 

HALO is available in the AtariAge store, so I'd file that one under Homebrew.