Atari 2600 Game Collection?

Question

I am trying to find the perfect Atari 2600 game collection. Because I cannot afford to buy every single Atari 2600 game, I have narrowed down the collection.

I will buy only official Atari games, and no third party games.
I will buy only regular "picture" label games. No red, silver, or text label games.
I will not buy ported arcade games.
I will not buy games in which I play on NES, such as Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Junior, Pac-Man, and Ms. Pac-Man, since the graphics are much better on those games.
I will not buy games with reviews of less than 80%.

The only game I own on my Atari 2600 now is Adventure. It's an official Atari game, with a picture label. Has a review of 90%, is not an arcade port, and cannot play this exact same game, with better graphics or sound, on another system. It is long, it is fun, and it passes the test. Best of all, it is original.

I cannot find any other Atari 2600 games that interest me, and are as fun as Adventure.

Help!

Answer 1

you can get it in the reputed dealer in mumbai who is very famous for games selling because recently i bought X-box360 at him only.

Answer 2

well man sorry to let you down but the "PERFECT" atari 2600 collection would be one that has anykind of game not just the kind of games, for example combat was the packin game for many years and yet it has a color label no picture label, and it is a must for any serious collector, i have over 100 atari carts now and i keep getting more every time i can, atari carts are way cheap now a days, maybe you will find a "lot" auction, i get quite a few most of the time and i only spent like no more than $400.00 in my collection, including a supercharger add-on ! ! ! and 3 games on cassete for it, one time i got a lot from ebay, 22 carts in mint condition for 38 bucks ! ! ! including s/h ! ! !, also for the better gfx on your nes games, nes games where nes games and atari games where atari games, yes the nes had better graphics but atari games had me in because the fun, reviews??? everyone is a critic, buying games because of reviews is not recomended when building up a collection, for example take the rare ms piggy's wedding cart for the atari 2600, it has a less than 20% in reviews but you get paid good money if you have one, some carts can be worth big money even thousands (seen it happened).

Answer 3

Well, if you're limiting yourself to Atari-developed games only and nothing that ever appeared on another platform, then you're really cutting down your options. Atari didn't actually make that many original, unique-to-the-2600 games. In fact, a quick search of MobyGames (a pretty good - though not 100% complete - source for listings of home console games) only lists 114 games developed by Atari itself for the 2600 (101 are listed under "Midway Games West" which is Atari's current name, and 13 others are listed under "Atari Corporation"). 36 of them were arcade ports, so right away you're down to only 78 options out of the hundreds of 2600 games. And a lot of those 78 are generic games like Hangman and Checkers, educational games, primitive puzzle games, and first generation sports games that you'd probably find more frustrating than fun. So if you strip away all of those, as well as E.T. (one of the worst video games ever made) and anything that was ever re-released on a superior platform, here's the 25 games on Moby's list that are left:



Adventure, Air-Sea Battle, Circus Atari, Combat, Dark Chambers, Demons to Diamonds, Haunted House, Human Cannonball, Maze Craze, Obelix, Quadrun, Radar Lock, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Slot Racers, Snoopy and the Red Baron, Solaris, Sorcerer's Apprentice, Star Ship, Street Racer, Superman, the SwordQuest series (3 games), Taz, and Yar's Revenge



Out of those, the games with the best reputations besides Adventure are probably Combat, Haunted House, Solaris, and Yar's Revenge. I haven't played Combat, and it's a 2-player only game anyway so I don't know that it would be much good to you. I have played the other three, however. I thought Solaris and Yar's Revenge were both a lot of fun, and I'd recommend both, especially Solaris if you like long games. Haunted House looked cool but I could never figure out how to play it, probably because I didn't have an instruction manual.



Now if you're willing to open up your developers a little bit, Activision and Parker Brothers both made some games for the 2600 that were pretty fun. Not even mentioning classics like Pitfall and River Raid that again also made it to other platforms, they still made some pretty solid 2600-only games like Chopper Command, Spider-Man, and Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back, all of which I had and enjoyed quite a bit.

Answer 4

It's tricky to find 2600 games that weren't done 'better' on the 800 and beyond, subsequentally.



I still have about 50 working cartridges, and most are official. Not all have 'picture' labels - although I don't know why this is your preference; many of them didn't actually have labels, and simply had colored print. Combat comes to mind, which was a very fun game.



Yar's Revenge, Barnstorming, Stampede, Boxing, Fishing, and others of that vein are all original, all labeled, and all fun. These I have, still, but I don't think I will be selling any of my 2600 stuff for another couple decades.

Answer 5

Try the Supercharger games, they come on CASSETTE! The entertainment of hooking up your tape deck to your atari and (slowly) loading a game that's like twice as big is wonderful, and there are some great games out there for it!

Answer 6

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