25 more of our favorite Atari 8bit games. One per year for the first 25 years. Many more videos to come, exploring the entire library up until today. If your favorite isn’t here, tell us below. It will probably show up in a video later in the series. There are A LOT of great Atari 8bit games

Games

Jetboy

Shoot’em Up! – Miscellaneous

XXL

2007

8/10

Great game

Tempest Xtreem

Shoot’em Up! – Miscellaneous

Atlantis

2008

10/10

Basically Tempest 2000 for the 8bits

Electro Maniac!

Arcade – Platformer (Single Screen)

Müller

2009

7.5//10

Really well made classic single screen style (Miner 2049er) arcade game

Flop Super Ball

Arcade – Breakout / Pong / Circus

Flop

2010

9/10

Very well made Arakanoid clone

Marbled

Brain – Logical / Puzzle

MAPA / PG / MIKER

2011

9.5/10

2011 Abbuc winner. Absolutely the bets of it’s kind on the 8bits. Need to fix the board by swapping tiles, then move with joystci and button at some time.

Asteroids Emulator

Asteroids

Atari / Kehrer / Delman

2012

9/10

Atari Coin-op 6502 code ported to the Atari 800

Assembloids XE

Brain – Miscellaneous

Agenda

2013

8/10

Really cool puzzlr gam. Greal music and excellent graphics

Dimo’s Quest in ABBUC Land!

Arcade – Collect’em!

Infernal Bytes

2014

10/10

Absolutely the bets of it’s kind. A liitle like Chips Challenge, with bettre music and more color graphics

AtariBlast!

Shoot’em Up! – Miscellaneous

Lay / Kong / Harvey / Szpilowski

2016

11/10

Technically, the best game every produced on the Atari 8bits

Baby Berks

shoot’em Up! – Miscellaneous

Williams

2018

8.5/10

John Willaims port of his own game from C16 to the A 8bits

Castle Defender

Strategy – Miscellaneous

MatoSimi

2019

8.5/10

A very nice BBC Micro Port. So many Flahs games re-did this, but this is the classic version.

Adam Is Me

Brain – Logical / Puzzle

Ilmenit / Agenda

2020

10/10

Not just the best acrade puzzler on the 8bts, posisbly the best there is

Albert

Arcade – Platformer (Single Screen)

Karmanski/Janusz/Wyszynski/Ziembik

2021

9.5/10

Inbcredible looking and sounds A8 platformer. it beeds 128K, but uses it well. Collect all of the items on the scrolling level to move tp the next one. The graphics are amazing.

Icky Squishy

Shoot’em Up! – Miscellaneous –

Star Gazer

1981

8/10

Un released Run around the scrolling Space Ship maze picking up stars (ammo) and shooting the gloppy bad guys. Not bad at all. Well done. Better tahan commercial Gauntlet port. You have grenades and auto fire, but how to use? McArthur, Jeffrey S.(RIP 207) has a yutube channe labout his two games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7DtSsLiww

Survivor

Shoot’em Up! – Multi-Directional

Synapse Software

1982

9/10

“OS B. Very nice combo of Star Castle and Bosconian Better with 2nd person amnning guns A Upon loading the game, your ship is set on manual firing. If you prefer automatic firing, simply press the “A” key on the keyboard. Pressing it once more will return you to manual firing. This can be used at any time during the game. T Upon loading, your ship will accelerate and decelerate gradually according to the motion of your joystick. If you prefer instantaneous acceleration and deceleration of your ship, press the “T” key on the keyboard. Pressing it once more will return you to the gradual ac¬ celeration mode. This can be changed at any time during the game. O Press the “O” (zero) key will zero out the high score. Space Bar Pressing the space bar releases a smart bomb which instantly destroys all enemy ships on the screen. You begin the game with seven smart bombs. “

Wayout

Arcade – Maze

Sirius Software

1982

9/10

Difficultm but imprssive first person maze game.

Rainbow Walker

Arcade – Q*bert

Synapse

1984

9/10

Should have been an XEGS Cart

Lord of the Orb

Arcade – Miscellaneous

Antic

1985

9/10

Action Maze score shoot. Should have been an XEGS game

Infiltrator

First person / isometric actions

Mindscape

1986

9.2/10

First person / isometric actions. A must have in a genre that is filled with goodness

Attack of the Mutant Camels

Defender / Empire Strickes Back

Mastertronic (UK)

1987

9/10

A Fast anbd furious, colorful version of the Empire Dtikes back game by Minter, An instand classic and GEM.

Dark Chambers

Arcade – Gauntlet

Atari

1988

8.5/10

A very very goof port of the classic APX and 7800 Game. Better than the Gaultlet port.

Commando+

Arcade – Commando

Atari

1989

9.5/10

Unreleased Version of the Arcade Classic. To me better than the VBXE C63 Port

Jet Boot Jack

Arcade – Platformer (Single Screen)

Byte Back

1990

9/10

Also released in 1983 in the USA by Datamost

Mission Shark

Arcade – Platformer (Multi-Screen)

Zeppelin

1991

10/10

Military action shooter platformer. Best of the genre on the 8bits. Should have been an XEGS cart

Rockman

Arcade – Collect’em!

Mirage

1995

8.5/10

Should be an XEGS cart as is