8-bit Atari Games

Designed by Jay Miner, who would later develop the Amiga, this 8-bit home computer was well ahead of its time (1979–82). It had only 8–48kB RAM, but it had custom coprocessors, sprite processing, and quite astonishing multimedia capabilities, which can be admired in Alternate Reality: The City. It had four joystick ports instead of the usual two, so that up to four players could compete in M.U.L.E.

The Atari 800 XL, often just called Atari XL for short, was released in 1983. It had the same processor (a MOS 6502 running at 1.8MHz), but 64kB RAM, and a smaller, elegant black-and-white case. Unfortunately, it proved less compatible to the Atari 800 than it was supposed to. Nowadays you can run the programs for both machines with the same emulator.

The Games

There is also an 8-bit Atari screenshot gallery.

Breakout	Arcade	79
Softporn Adventure	Adventure	81	Chuck Benton
Hellcat Ace	Action	82	Sid Meier
Mankala	Mancala	82	Elizabeth Chase MacRae
Artworx Strip Poker	Strip Poker	83
Castle Wolfenstein	Action
M.U.L.E.	strat		Dan Bunten
Solo Flight	Flight Sim		Sid Meier
Ultima I–III	RPG
Zork I–III	Adventure
Alley Cat	Arcade	84
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein	Adventure
Boulder Dash	Puzzle
Karateka	Fighter		Jordan Mechner
Alternate Reality: The City	RPG	85
Ultima IV	RPG	86
Saracen	Puzzle	87	Ilan Ginzburg
Geo	Tetris	88
Speed-Puzzle			Harald Höppner
Super Puzzler			Jörg Redemann
Tigris			Matthias Drees
Tetrys	Tetris	89
The Warsaw Tetris
Dredis			Kemal Ezcan
Zador	Shisen-Sho		Kemal Ezcan
Ashido	Ishido	90	Kemal Ezcan
Cultivation	Puzznic	90	Kemal Ezcan
Stack Up	Columns	91
Valgus²	Tetris	91	James R. Glenn
Another World	Adventure	92	Inofficial
Sexversi	Othello	93
Flowers Mania	Columns	06
Klony	Ataxx		Arkadiusz Lubaszka
Sudoku Sweep	Tetris

Emulation

Atari800 is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for Unix, Amiga, MS-DOS, Atari TT/Falcon, SDL and WinCE.
Atari 800 Emulator for the Mac
Atari 8-bit Projects & Stuff

8-bit Atari Games

The Games

Emulation

Links