# Your favourite Atari 2600 games. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 5, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680 "2004-10-05T17:26:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marathon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7cd45c/32.png) [@Marathon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marathon)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/41 "2004-10-06T12:43:52Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > Ms PacMan > You know that treasure sound byte? It goes do-do-do-DO-da-DO. In my head it would always say, “You got the DIA-mond RING!” or “You got the MON-ey BAG!” No, I’m not normal. I had to test that out, so I did…at 7:45 AM, here at work, which is a cubicle farm. No doubt my coworkers are wondering why I’m singing softly about diamond rings and money bags. Speaking of Atari sounds, I’ll probably have the damn music from Pitfall II in my head all day now. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/42 "2004-10-06T13:03:36Z")
> [@LilyoftheValley](#): > > …and what’s that game where the parts of this machine go flying off into houses and you need to run around reassembling the machine (and if you go into the wrong building, you pick up a bomb)? I can still hear the song in my head. Do-do-DO. DO-di-doodle-oodle. Do-do-DO. That sould be **Blueprint** where you grabbed a piece and had to run back to the bottom of the screen to put the part on the blueprint. Then when it was assembled into a funny looking robot cannon you had to shoot the monster at the top of the screen that was chasing your girlfriend. Boy…you try to sell that today and kids would just roll their eyes at you. And I second **Dragonstomper** and ANY of the Supercharger games. I thought I was the shizzit (or whatever the equivalent term back then was) because I was playing with more power than a simple cartridge would hold! Oh and **Star Raiders** was cool. Came with a comic book and a handy 9 (12?) key keypad with overlay as a second controller. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/43 "2004-10-06T13:42:10Z")
> [@picker](#): > > E.t. Hahahahahahahaha! Oy, I hated that game. I know where you can get about 40,000 of them if you want. 😉 The company I work for used to be the largest distributor of Atari in the U.S. and that game brought them to their knees. We work with Nintendo now. Anyway, I lived for Atari in the early 80s. Most of my favorites have already been mentioned: \*\*Missle Command \*\* (my mother got 1,000,000 points on the game) **Pac-Man** (my mother beat us at that, too) **Pitfall River Raid** \*\*Keystone Capers \*\* (or Cops?) **Fast Food** ---
**Author:** ![Nightingale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@Nightingale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightingale)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/44 "2004-10-06T14:04:24Z")
**Space Invaders** and **Pac Man** were the hands down favorites at my house, but we also loved **Combat** and **Defender**. My brother played **Defender** until the game crashed and reset itself. . . when he was six years old. (He always has been the best video gamer I’ve ever met!) ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/45 "2004-10-06T14:13:41Z")
There were no bad Activision games, but **Keystone Kapers** was easily my favorite. It was similar to Pitfall, but had a ‘finality’ in that levels could be completed, rather than just run around for 20 minutes. **Haunted House** was great, and although not scary, I jumped more than once when running into the damn ghost having just gone upstairs. **Yar’s Revenge** trivia - The ‘safe’ zone in the middle of the map was a bug that the designers could not get out of the code, so instead, they made it a ‘feature’. **Raiders of the Lost Ark** I actually preferred over Adventure, although having to parachute into the one cave was really really hard. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/46 "2004-10-07T01:46:36Z")
> [@Barrytown](#): > > I had to test that out, so I did…at 7:45 AM, here at work, which is a cubicle farm. No doubt my coworkers are wondering why I’m singing softly about diamond rings and money bags. That totally made my day. 😃 > [@Max Carnage](#): > > That sould be Blueprint where you grabbed a piece and had to run back to the bottom of the screen to put the part on the blueprint. Then when it was assembled into a funny looking robot cannon you had to shoot the monster at the top of the screen that was chasing your girlfriend. > > Boy…you try to sell that today and kids would just roll their eyes at you. Yes! Thank you! The “monster” looked like a big red flounder running on its rear fins, as I recall. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/47 "2004-10-07T01:52:23Z")
I loved Adventure, Sky Diver, Space Invaders, Kaboom, Pitfall I and II, Asteroids, and Breakout, as well as a bowling game that I can’t remember whether it was simply called Bowling or not. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/48 "2004-10-07T02:00:23Z")
> [@Harimad-sol](#): > > as well as a bowling game that I can’t remember whether it was simply called Bowling or not. [From my link](http://members.cox.net/plas1/atari2600/images/bowling.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/49 "2004-10-07T02:02:53Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > [From my link](http://members.cox.net/plas1/atari2600/images/bowling.gif). Ah, that looks like it. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680/50 "2004-10-07T02:16:01Z")
We had Combat, Defender, Pacman, and Space Invaders. I kicked ass at Combat, and was pretty good at Defender. My mother was the master of Space Invaders. I still have fond memories of Combat, although it is, in hindsight, pretty lame. The Invisible Tanks was fun. Even then I wondered if that was one of those ‘bugs made into features’ things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favourite-atari-2600-games/267680.md?page=2)