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
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 |