3 New Atari 2600 Games Have Been Found & Dumped

The three games were developed by UA Ltd in the early ’80s.

Three previously unreleased Atari 2600 prototypes have been discovered and dumped online by a poster over on the AtariAge forums (as spotted by John Hancock!).

The AtariAge poster, who calls himself Ianoid, posted in the AtariAge forums earlier this month, publishing links to download six different cancelled Atari 2600 titles that the developer UA Ltd had at one time planned to release for the system in the early 80s (all of which were based on their previous offerings for the short-lived Emerson Radio console, the Arcadia 2001). It’s speculated that they were cancelled due to the video game crash of 1983 and being unable to compete in a heavily-saturated market.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

The three games were developed by UA Ltd in the early ’80s.

Three previously unreleased Atari 2600 prototypes have been discovered and dumped online by a poster over on the AtariAge forums (as spotted by John Hancock!).

The AtariAge poster, who calls himself Ianoid, posted in the AtariAge forums earlier this month, publishing links to download six different cancelled Atari 2600 titles that the developer UA Ltd had at one time planned to release for the system in the early 80s (all of which were based on their previous offerings for the short-lived Emerson Radio console, the Arcadia 2001). It’s speculated that they were cancelled due to the video game crash of 1983 and being unable to compete in a heavily-saturated market.

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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