Top-down perspective.

Two-player simultaenous play.

Like arcade

Like tanks in Combat, but not as good.

Artillery Duel has two players taking turns setting the angle and power of their cannons to try to shoot the other player's cannon. You have to account for wind and terrain. Spike's Peak is a platformer across 4 screens.

Gameplay like arcade, but with solid instead of vector graphics.

Like Intellivision Astrosmash.

Kind of like Missile Command on steroids.

Fly your plane through barns. Kind of boring. Nice graphics, though.

Drive a tank, like arcade

Like arcade

Like arcade

Great party game.

Like arcade

Like arcade

A.K.A. Pele's Championship Soccer, A.K.A. Pele's Soccer

Defender with helicopters

Bounce guys on teeter-totter to break balloons overhead

Like Kaboom!, but you avoid the coconuts being thrown rather than catch them.

Play various 2-player combat games with tanks and planes.

One-man army.

Shoot down incoming planes and paratroopers

Sequel to Atlantis

Isometric perspective

Kind of like Gauntlet, but very slow-paced.

A.K.A. The Activision Decathlon

Like arcade

Phoenix clone

Like arcade

Like arcade

Like arcade

Dodge the dragon's fire breath and collect treasures. Better on Intellivision.

Considered to be the cause of the 1983 video game crash. I actually enjoy this game, and find its action/adventure gameplay to be fun.

First-person racing in various environments

Vertically-scrolling maze

Towering Inferno is better

Get your chicken across the road

Like arcade

Who can catch the most flies

One-man army

Like arcade

4 different stages

Horizontally-scrolling racing

Like arcade

Make your way through a cave full of traps to rescue the person at the bottom.

Collect 3 pieces of an urn and escape the house while avoiding monsters.

Try to shoot the guy into the water tower

A.K.A. A Game of Concentration

Best sports game on Atari 2600

Overhead perspective

Best soccer game

Like arcade

Like arcade

Like arcade

Catch the bombs as they fall

Like arcade

Catch the thief before he gets away.

Sort of like Pac-Man, but with cops and robbers.

Has little to do with the TV show. Fly a helipcopter to rescue soldiers. Occasionally you perform surgery on a soldier, like the board game Operation.

Like arcade

Solve math problems to move forward.

Race through randomly-generated mazes with various obstacles and enemies chasing. 2-player simultaneous play.

Like arcade

Like arcade

Like arcade

Locate a key, steal a crown, and bring it to the top of the mountain, all while avoiding enemies and collecting gold.

Like arcade

Like arcade

Like arcade

First-person racing

Like arcade, requires Booster Grip, or use Colecovision controller

Gameplay like arcade, but terrible graphics, sound and music. Even the programming is sloppy. Still, it manages to be a fun game.

A.K.A. Pele's Championship Soccer, A.K.A. Championship Soccer

Like arcade

Best music on Atari 2600, and best overall action/adventure. Nice graphics as well.

First-person racing

Like arcade

Like arcade

Must use manual

Must use manual

Like arcade

Must use manual

Fly a plane along a river

Like Battlezone, but not nearly as good.

Navigate a submarine

Try to land on a pad

One person hides, the other finds them, terrible game

Kind of like Galaga, Pac-Man and Q*Bert combined.

Nice graphics

A.K.A. Space War

Like arcade

Like arcade

Must use manual, very complex and difficult.

Like arcade

Requires the use of the 8-button Touch Pad.

Like arcade

Side-view perspective of battle on Hoth against AT-ATs. No tow cables, though.

Like arcade. More authentic than Defender.

Mix and match the Strawberry Shortcake characters. Not much fun, even for young kids.

Summer Olympics

Not a whole lot different from the original Breakout

Great action/adventure which has you catching all the criminals and Lex Luthor, continuously rescuing Lois Lane from said criminals, and putting back together a bridge that Lex Luthor blows up at the beginning of the game. All of which so you can change back to Clark Kent and go to work at the Daily Planet! Easily the best Superman game ever made.

Think Tron Light Cycles with plain, blocky graphics and primitive sound.

Requires comic book

Requires comic book

Like arcade, but not as good.

RealSports Tennis is better

Fight your way through a room on fire to break through a door to rescue (apparently invisible) people before you escape yourself.

Pool/Billiards

Like Tempest in 2D.

In many ways superior to the arcade version.

Like arcade

Awkward controls and long waits for the CPU to make its move.

Expect to wait a while for the computer to make its move.

Variations on Pong

Not nearly as good as Midnight Magic.

Defend your castle. Fun party game.

Winter Olympics. Great for parties.

Think hangman, but you shoot down the letters to spell the word.