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Ghost Manor is a horror video game released by Xonox in 1983 for the Atari 2600 and VIC-20.It was packaged in a double ended cartridge and a cassette tape along with one of three other games in an effort to appeal to budget conscious buyers who would purchase two games for the price of one cartridge and one cassette tape.
Haunted House is a 1982 adventure video game programmed by James Andreasen for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and published by Atari.The player controls an avatar shaped like a pair of eyes who explores a mansion seeking out parts of an urn to return to the entrance.
Xonox, a division of K-tel Software, was an American third-party manufacturer of cartridges for the Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 in the early 1980s. Xonox was one of many small video game companies to fold during the Video Game Crash of 1983 .
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.
Artillery Duel is an artillery game originally written for the Bally Astrocade by Perkins Engineering and published by Bally in 1982. John Perkins wrote the game first in Astro BASIC, submitting it to The Arcadian fanzine, from which it was adapted for the Astro BASIC manual.
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Games by Apollo Inc. (also known as Apollo) was a third-party developer of games for the Atari 2600 video game system, based in Richardson, Texas.It was founded in October 1981 by Pat Roper as a subsidiary of his National Career Consultants (NCC). [1]
The CompuMate SV010 was a home computer peripheral manufactured by Spectravideo International for the Atari 2600 home video game console.It was released on 6 January 1983 at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada.