Description
The third in the Atari 2600 Action Pack series- this time, with Atari games as well as Activision's.
Contains the following:
Breakout (Atari, arcade conversion: the original wall-breaking game, and the spiritual descendent of Pong.)
Night Driver (Atari, arcade conversion: The arcade's first 3D 1st person driving video game. Drive as fast as you can through a winding street course- in the middle of the night- and rack up points.)
Combat (Atari, arcade conversion of the Atari/Kee Tank series: Drive your tank or pilot your aircraft around a screen, shooting at your opponent.)
Private Eye (Activision: One of Activision's rarer late-release 2600 games. Drive around and solve crimes.)
Canyon Bomber (Atari, arcade conversion: 2 aircraft float over a canyon filled with bricks, dropping bombs; the person who destroys most wins! Also contains a depth-charge bombing game.)
Space War (Atari: Like every other game system of the time, you just had to have an adaptation of the PDP classic.)
Star Master (Activision: A space combat simulation- incredibly similar to Atari's genre-busting Star Raiders.)
Checkers (Activision: Unlike Atari's game, this one was fit into a 4k ROM.)
Pressure Cooker (Activision: A hard to find but popular 2600 game- control Short Order Sam as he builds gigantic hamburgers according to the whims of his patrons. Gets very frantic.)
Title Match Pro Wrestling (Absolute: Garry Kitchen's late-release wrestling game.)
Yar's Revenge (Atari: You are a Yar (a fly like creature) who must eat through a barrier and destroy the Qotile within.)
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Trivia
Breakout (the arcade game) was designed by Steve Jobs- the royalties were some of the original seed money for Apple Computers.
Checkers was originally meant to be viewable in 3D with the proper glasses.
Title Match Pro Wrestling's ring is constructed from the same code as Atari's RealSports Boxing ring- both were programmed by Garry Kitchen.
Yar's Revenge was originally a Star Castle (Cinematronics arcade) adaptation. After talks fell through, the game was redesigned and named after Ray Kassar, an Atari executive who was upset over the Star Castle deal.
