11/5/2023 0 Comments Tank battle 80s video game![]() ![]() It was quite difficult to narrow this list down (even the Honorable Mentions) but I feel that the result is a list and retrospective that captures the personality of the Atari 2600’s personality and historical impact. There are a lot of noteworthy games in the Atari 2600 library from both a historical and gameplay perspective. In the backstories, you’ll pick up on some come threads to work together to the rise and fall of Atari as a company and coinciding boom and bust of the first big home video game trend (before Nintendo revitalized it with the NES.) While we will indeed cover many arcade-inspired titles in this lineup, we want to dedicate our time to the games that really made the largest impact on Atari, the rise of companies like Activision, and the video game industry as a whole. In fact, many gamers in the Atari era would make the case that one of the main draws of the 2600 was to play home version of arcade classics. With arcade machines being so popular in the late 1970s and 80s, it was natural for the 2600 to have a lot of arcade adaptations in its library. ![]() The Atari 2600 (originally known as the Atari VCS) is the first popular home video game console, starting a gradual transition from the arcades. Presented by Racketboy, Rob/AtariSpot, Golgo 14, BoneSnapDeez, and Anapanįeel free to read up more on our Defining Games Series or our Atari 2600 101 Beginner’s Guide for more information on Atari’s pioneering console.
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