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A free by mail offer, with the purchase of the console, boosted Astrosmash sales. [3] It was also promoted in the United States and Canada via a high score contest where top scorers were flown to Houston for the finals. [4] An Atari 2600 port was released under Mattel's M Network label as Astroblast.
The Atari 2600 has been a popular platform for homebrew projects, with 88 games publicly released. Unlike later systems, the Atari 2600 does not require a modchip to run cartridges. Many games are clones of existing games written as programming challenges, [ 27 ] often borrowing the name of the original.
B. Bachelor Party (video game) Backgammon (1979 video game) Bank Heist (Atari 2600) Barnstorming (video game) Baseball (Intellivision video game) Basic Math (video game)
In the early 1980s, Mattel's Intellivision video game console was a direct competitor to Atari's Video Computer System (VCS), better known as the Atari 2600. Although Mattel designed and produced video game cartridges for their own system, the company surprised the industry by also releasing simplified versions of its games for the 2600 under the M Network label.
The Atari 2600+ (2023) is a replica of the 2600 and is 20% smaller. The 2600+ includes support for original Atari 2600 and 7800 cartridges. [88] The Atari 7800+ (2024) is a smaller replica of the Atari 7800. It has similar features to the Atari 2600+, but its exterior encasing design pays homage to the Atari 7800.
Stella is an emulator of the Atari 2600 game console, and takes its name from the console's codename. [2] It is open-source, and runs on most major modern platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
The music from the virtual tape deck can be mixed with the Atari 2600 game audio so both are audible to simulate playing the game on TV while having the tape running in the background. Six Activision-produced Atari 2600 titles were not included in Activision Anthology , likely due to outside ownership of their respective licenses.
Star Ship is a first-person space combat simulator video game programmed by Bob Whitehead and published by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari VCS was released on September 11, 1977.