Can you name the best selling Atari 2600 Games?

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Atari 2600 Games Quiz

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Published: October 8th, 2008
Category: Gaming
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Tags: Board Game Quizzes, best, selling, approx, copy, sold, Atari 2600, atari, 2600

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	Segnbora:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 04:55 GMT	4 points
	"Missile Command" is misspelled.

	Antithesys:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 06:48 GMT	8 points
	I'm surprised at some of these. I put in ET as a joke, because it was one of the most infamous failures of video game history, and didn't expect it to be one of the platform's top-selling games. Adventure FTW.

	Chumley:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 07:00 GMT	2 points
	Apparently the games I had were not the popular ones since most did not appear on this list. How could Combat not be on this list. Everyone had Combat. (Although I did guess E.T. but never had the game.)

	RandallPinkston:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 07:40 GMT	3 points
	I think that Combat was included with the system when you bought it, so that may be why it's not listed. I was surprised not to find Breakout, Night Driver, Asteroids, etc., but a nostalgic smile came to my face when Kaboom worked.

	Booger:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 11:18 GMT	2 points
	Wow, this brings back memories. I found this website at which you can actually PLAY Adventure: http://www.simmphonic.com/programming/flash.htm#

	Andrew:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 13:20 GMT	4 points
	Dig Dug didn't make the cut! How sad.

	montecarlo:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 14:45 GMT	2 points
	yeah, reaching the fringes of my memory on this one... surprised no dig dug, breakout, pong, basketball (were these on the 5200 or 7800 instead?... i should go wikipedia). but the good news is that if this atari 2600 list was put up today, that means nintendo, sega genesis lists, etc... should be coming up in the next couple of weeks :)

	radiosilence:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 15:50 GMT	3 points
	One of my friends had the Intellivision console back then. Instead of the joystick, it contained a thumb-pad controller. We played a lot of Advanced Dungeons and Dragons and Burger Time.

	magister:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 15:55 GMT	3 points
	No Atari for me, which is why I failed at this game. We had a Commodore 64. I'm going to try and get my father-in-law, a printer, to make me a T-Shirt that says load"chopperrun",8,1. Sweet.

	Mr_T:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 17:56 GMT	10 points
	Wow - no Frogger? Combat? Defender? Breakout? Yar's Revenge? Pole Posistion? Asteroids? Q-Bert? Spy Hunter?

	Jeremy:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	5 points
	I'm with Mr. T. Especially Combat, Pole Position and Asteroids. Everyone had those games.

	chemchad:	Oct 8th, 2008 at 19:41 GMT	2 points
	What about Donkey Kong and Plaque Attack those were classics too

	tcalleen:	Oct 9th, 2008 at 00:47 GMT	2 points
	I had an intellivision at the time, so this one was tough. I guessed a lot of the ones that weren't listed, but I'm horrified that I couldn't even manage to get Pac-Man! Speaking of Pong - did anyone else have the original Pong that came in its own console with attached knobs?

	ssab:	Oct 9th, 2008 at 02:19 GMT	3 points
	I'd like to know what the basis of this list was? I find it hard to believe that Asteroids, Breakout, Defender, and something from the "real sports" series wasn't on the list

	Squiggy:	Feb 18th, 2009 at 01:00 GMT	1 point
	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games#Atari_2600

	SurvivorCharlie:	Feb 21st, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	0 points
	Not very accurate. Combat and Asteroids, Breakout, and many others sold over a million copies. 1 star.

	pbrown:	Apr 6th, 2009 at 01:15 GMT	-2 points
	I love pac man

	WeaselBoy:	Jun 11th, 2009 at 16:37 GMT	1 point
	I had the original pong and would have neighbors come over just to see the "latest" technology

	Bartleby:	Jul 8th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	-1 points
	in my opinion, the atari 2600 joystick was the best game controller ever. yes, i'm a dinosaur. but it was simple, responsive, and sufficient. most of the subsequent controllers were too clunky and complex for me. yes, i'm a simpleton.

	mathias1979:	Jul 9th, 2009 at 19:03 GMT	0 points
	Man I'm old...got 5/12 which looks to be far above the average. What's the difference between Pitfall and Jungle Hunt? I had Jungle Hunt...and every screen shot I've ever seen for Pitfall looks exactly the same as Jungle Hunt. I was really hoping Jungle Hunt would count for Pitfall, as I can never remember Pitfall. To echo others, really surprised super breakout, pole position were not among the most popular.

	turboglyde:	Oct 9th, 2009 at 06:25 GMT	0 points
	stunned to not see asteroids on here...seemed like everyone had that game growing up...or what about raiders of the lost ark?..

	KingSlender:	May 3rd, 2010 at 08:41 GMT	1 point
	No Asteroids or Donkey Kong? I'm not sure about that. Did anyone here have the Superman Atari 2600 game? That was a good one. The REALLY sad thing about it is that to this day it's still one of the better Superman games ever made. It's true. He's the most powerful superhero ever and yet hardly any IDIOT game programmer can make a halfway decent Superman game. Frustrating!!

	mtcards:	Aug 12th, 2010 at 21:31 GMT	1 point
	The problem with the list is that many of the games were made by activision and not Atari, making it confusing at best. Games like Frogger/Donkey Kong were also very popular, but not made by Atari either.