List of ALL arcade ports?

[godzillajoe]

Have we done this already? I probably started it myself a while back. Messing around with my CC2 and adding an ARCADE subfolder. Here's what I have. Probably missed some homebrews that aren't in the AA Rarity Guide.

 

Air-Sea Battle (Anti-Aircraft)

Amidar

Anteater (unreleased proto)

Asteroids

Basketball

Battlezone

Berzerk

Blueprint

Breakout

Buck Rogers: Planet Of Zoom

Bump 'n' Jump

Burgertime

Canyon Bomber

Carnival

Centipede

Chetiry (homebrew) (Tetris)

Circus Atari (Circus)

Colony 7 (homebrew)

Combat (Tank)

Commando

Congo Bongo

Crazy Ballon (homebrew)

Crazy Climber

Crossbow

Crystal Castles

Defender

Dig Dug

Dodge 'em (Head On)

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong Jr.

Dragster (Drag Race)

Edtris (homebrew) (Tetris)

Elevator Action (proto)

Espial

Frogger

Front Line

Funky Fish (proto)

Galaxian

Gorf

Gravitar

Gunfight (homebrew) (Gun Fight)

Gyruss

Human Cannonball (Cannonball?)

Ikari Warriors

Indy 500 (Indy 800)

Ixion (proto)

Joust

Jr. Pac-Man

Jungle Hunt

Kangaroo

Klax (proto)

Kung Fu Master

Ladybug (homebrew)

Lock 'n' Chase

Looping (proto)

Mario Bros.

Millipede

Missile Command

Moon Patrol

Mouse Trap

Mr. Do!

Mr. Do's Castle

Ms. Pac-Man

Night Driver

Omega Race

Outlaw (Gun Fight)

Pac-Man

Pengo

Phantom II (homebrew)

Phoenix

Pleiades

Pole Position

Pooyan

Popeye

Q*bert

Q*bert's Qubes

Rampage!

Reactor

Road Runner

Roc 'n' Rope

Sinistar (proto)

Sky Diver

Sky Skipper

Solar Fox

Space Invaders

Space War (Space Wars)

Sprintmaster

Spy Hunter

Star Fire (homebrew)

Star Ship (Starship 1)

Star Trek: Strategic Operation Simulator

Star Wars: The Arcade Game

Stargate

Steeplechase

Strategy X

Stunt Cycle (proto)

Sub Scan

Tac Scan

Tapper

Tempest (proto)

Tetris 26 (homebrew)

Time Pilot

Track and Field

Turbo (proto)

Tutankham

Universal Chaos (Targ)

Up 'n' Down

Vanguard

Vault Assault (homebrew) (Space Zap)

Venture

Video Olympics (Pong)

Wizard Of Wor

Xenophobe

Xevious (proto)

Zaxxon

Edited October 7, 2014 by godzillajoe

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Star Castle (2x), Juno First, Sea Wolf...

 

And also some very early games like Surround

[+Nathan Strum]

I threw this together several years ago, but it hasn't been updated in some time (itself based on a previous list Snider-Man posted here). I'm sure it's incomplete, but I did tack on some homebrews.

For commercial games, I only included those that had a direct arcade counterpart with the same name. Not other games based on arcade games but not marketed as ports of them. Some examples:

Arcade version: 2600 version:

Sprint 2 (Atari/Kee Games) Indy 500 (Atari)

Drag Race (Atari) Dragster (Activision)

Circus (Exidy) Circus Atari (Atari)

Space Wars (Cinematronics) Space War (Atari)

Deep Scan (Sega) Sub/Scan (Sega)

And so on. Even though games of this sort are pretty obviously based on certain arcade games, this can get pretty fuzzy if you start including stuff like Activision's Megamania being based on Sega's Astro Blaster.

Also not included are games with titles similar to arcade games, but having nothing to do with them (Gauntlet, Krull, Tron Deadly Discs, etc.).

Prototypes and homebrews are listed separately at the end.

Activision Commando

Activision Double Dragon

Activision Kung-Fu Master

Activision Rampage!

Atari Asteroids

Atari Basketball

Atari Battlezone

Atari Berzerk

Atari Breakout

Atari Canyon Bomber

Atari Centipede

Atari Crazy Climber

Atari Crossbow

Atari Crystal Castles

Atari Defender

Atari Defender II (AKA Stargate)

Atari Dig Dug

Atari Galaxian

Atari Gravitar

Atari Ikari Warriors

Atari Joust

Atari Jr. Pac-Man

Atari Jungle Hunt

Atari Kangaroo

Atari Klax

Atari Mario Bros

Atari Millipede

Atari Missile Command

Atari Moon Patrol

Atari Ms. Pac-Man

Atari Night Driver

Atari Outlaw

Atari Pac-Man

Atari Pengo

Atari Phoenix

Atari Pole Position

Atari Road Runner

Atari Sky Diver

Atari Space Invaders

Atari Stargate

Atari Super Breakout

Atari Track and Field

Atari Vanguard

Atari Warlords

Atari Xenophobe

CBS Electronics Blue Print

CBS Electronics Gorf

CBS Electronics Omega Race

CBS Electronics Solar Fox

CBS Electronics Wizard of Wor

Coleco Carnival

Coleco Donkey Kong

Coleco Donkey Kong Jr.

Coleco Front Line

Coleco Mouse Trap

Coleco Mr. Do!

Coleco Roc'N Rope

Coleco Time Pilot

Coleco Venture

Coleco Zaxxon

Konami Pooyan

Konami Strategy X

M-Network Bump 'N' Jump

M-Network Burger Time

M-Network Lock 'N' Chase

Parker Brothers Amidar

Parker Brothers Frogger

Parker Brothers Gyruss

Parker Brothers Mr. Do!'s Castle

Parker Brothers Popeye

Parker Brothers Q*Bert

Parker Brothers Q*bert's Qubes

Parker Brothers Reactor

Parker Brothers Sky Skipper

Parker Brothers Star Wars Arcade Game

Parker Brothers Super Cobra

Parker Brothers Tutankham

Sears Steeplechase

Sega Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

Sega Congo Bongo

Sega Spy Hunter

Sega Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Sega Tac/Scan

Sega Tapper

Sega Up'n Down

Starpath Frogger (The Official)

Tigervision Espial

Tigervision Polaris

Tigervision River Patrol

Tigervision Springer

Prototypes:

Atari Elevator Action

Atari Elk Attack (working title for Electric Yo-Yo)

Atari Millipede (GCC version)

Atari Sinistar

Atari Stunt Cycle

Atari Tempest

Atari Xevious

Coleco Turbo

M-Network Anteater

M-Network Loco-Motion

UA Limited Funky Fish

UA Limited Pleiades

Homebrews:

Manuel Rotschkar Colony 7

Manuel Rotschkar Crazy Balloon

Manuel Rotschkar GunFight

Chris Walton Juno First

John Champeau Lady Bug

Darrell Spice Medieval Mayhem (based on the arcade version of Warlords)

Dennis Debro Pac-Man 4K

David Weavil Phantom II

Manuel Rotschkar Seawolf

Darrell Spice Space Rocks (Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe)

D. Scott Williamson Star Castle

Manuel Rotschkar Starfire

 

Cases could also be made for Chetiry (and other Tetris clones) and Boulder Dash since there were arcade versions of those games as well. But those were less ports of the arcade versions, than of the console/home computer versions.

Edited October 7, 2014 by Nathan Strum

[+SpiceWare]

The Atari Times has a nice Arcade to 2600 list. It has nice comparative screenshots and even includes homebrews and prototypes.

• A to H
• I to R
• S to Z

It is from 2007 though, so newer homebrews like Space Rocks aren't in it.

[godzillajoe]

And also some very early games like Surround

 

What was the arcade version again? There was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind as I passed by it, but I wasn't sure

Edited October 7, 2014 by godzillajoe

[Nesbroslash]

 

What was the arcade version again? There was a nagging doubt in the back of my mind as I passed by it, but I wasn't sure

 

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7160

 

Technically Surround is just a copycat port, but it's still effectively the same game.

[Gregory DG]

The Atari Times has a nice Arcade to 2600 list. It has nice comparative screenshots and even includes homebrews and prototypes.

• A to H
• I to R
• S to Z

It is from 2007 though, so newer homebrews like Space Rocks aren't in it.

 

Crap, I really need to update those pages!

[high voltage]

Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later

[+SpiceWare]

 

Crap, I really need to update those pages!

 

 

Maybe do some crowdsourcing and have people post screenshots in this topic with what's missing?

[Nesbroslash]

Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later

 

I'm just curious, but did Atari think the home version was so good that they put it in a cab, or was the release of the arcade cab delayed to be released after the 2600 version? I'm not sure if there would even be much of an interesting reason behind the decision, but the whole "reverse arcade port" thing seems a bit odd to me, so I'm just wondering.

Edited October 7, 2014 by Nesbroslash

[godzillajoe]

Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later

 

That's why I didn't include it it in my list above but would include medieval mayhem. a port of an arcade port of a home game

[+SpiceWare]

I'm just curious, but did Atari think the home version was so good that they put it in a cab, or was the release of the arcade cab delayed to be released after the 2600 version? I'm not sure if there would even be much of an interesting reason behind the decision, but the whole "reverse arcade port" thing seems a bit odd to me, so I'm just wondering.

 

Don't know. From A conversation with Carla Meninsky:

 

After Dodge Em, I went straight to Warlords which was on the list as Kings in the Corner break-out game. I would like to set the record straight here - I did the 2600 game before the coin-op game even existed! I think that was the first time a coin-op game derived from the console game.

[NE146]

 

 

Maybe do some crowdsourcing and have people post screenshots in this topic with what's missing?

 

Kind of like this ancient thread.. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/17112-fun-with-arcade-vs-2600-screen-shots/

 

Could obviously probably use a reboot/update.

[godzillajoe]

Why can't I edit my initial post? Wanted to add the games I missed.

[+SpiceWare]

You can only edit posts for an hour. If you subscribe you get 30 days.

[timdu]

I also have this list on my web site from our FAQ about arcade ports for the Atari 2600:

 

VCS arcade ports (or arcade influences)

 

Check it out @:

 

http://www.2600connection.com/faq/faq_arcade_ports.html

[AJ Boomer]

On 10/7/2014 at 12:34 PM, high voltage said:

Warlords was the home version first, arcade version later

The home version was programmed before the arcade version, but the arcade version was released before the home version! I hope this sets the record straight. It's not unusual for people to get the facts confused about Warlord's development and release.

[Living Room Arcade]

I was working on this, too, and would like to share.  I think we're up to around 150 home versions of arcade games on the Atari 2600.

 

2023-12-06 2600 Arcade List.xls

Edited December 7, 2023 by Living Room Arcade

[Living Room Arcade]

@timdu shared his list on his website "2600 Connection."  

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011061747/http://www.2600connection.com/faq/faq_arcade_ports.html

 

2600 Connection Arcade List.pdf

Edited December 8, 2023 by Living Room Arcade

[Living Room Arcade]

@godzillajoe @Nathan Strum @timdu  @Gregory DG  Are any of you guys still around?  I might have a few Q's about some of these home arcade versions.  

[+Nathan Strum]

Less frequently, but I'm still around.

[Living Room Arcade]

@Nathan Strum  I don't want to disturb anyone.  There are some home versions that I wonder if they're "arcade" or not.  Like for example Atari Frog Pond and Mattel's Frog's and Flies.  They strongly resemble the arcade Frogs by Gremlin 1978.

https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7858

It's not critically important, I just was wondering which, exactly, of these many Atari 2600 games are actually "arcade."

Because some games like Sky Diver I had no idea.  I just found out recently it was an arcade game.  

 

[+Nathan Strum]

For Sky Diver, Atari produced both the arcade and 2600 versions. So it *could* be considered a home version of the arcade game. Whether or not Atari was trying to entice people to buy the 2600 version as an actual port of the arcade game is something I can't answer. I don't recall that being a selling point for the 2600 until Space Invaders. Then bringing home arcade games became the reason many people bought 2600s. I think a lot of early 2600 games were made simply because they *could* be made, and Atari already owned the trademarks from the arcade side. I bought Missile Command along with my 2600, because it was an arcade port. But at the time, I had no idea Combat was based on Tank. I don't think I'd ever seen a Tank cabinet.

 

As for Frogs and Flies/Frog Pond, and other games clearly influenced by arcade titles, I think it's all subject to ones own interpretation whether it's "arcade" or not. How close is the gameplay? Is it a spot-on copy of the arcade game? Then it would at least fall into the "influenced by" category. But without an attribution stating that it was licensed from Gremlin, it's not official.

[Living Room Arcade]

On 10/7/2014 at 4:32 AM, Nathan Strum said:

I threw this together several years ago, but it hasn't been updated in some time (itself based on a previous list Snider-Man posted here). I'm sure it's incomplete, but I did tack on some homebrews.

 

For commercial games, I only included those that had a direct arcade counterpart with the same name. Not other games based on arcade games but not marketed as ports of them. Some examples:

 

Arcade version: 2600 version:

 

Sprint 2 (Atari/Kee Games) Indy 500 (Atari)

Drag Race (Atari) Dragster (Activision)

Circus (Exidy) Circus Atari (Atari)

Space Wars (Cinematronics) Space War (Atari)

Deep Scan (Sega) Sub/Scan (Sega)

 

And so on. Even though games of this sort are pretty obviously based on certain arcade games, this can get pretty fuzzy if you start including stuff like Activision's Megamania being based on Sega's Astro Blaster.

 

Also not included are games with titles similar to arcade games, but having nothing to do with them (Gauntlet, Krull, Tron Deadly Discs, etc.).

 

Prototypes and homebrews are listed separately at the end.

 

Activision Commando

Activision Double Dragon

Activision Kung-Fu Master

Activision Rampage!

 

Atari Asteroids

Atari Basketball

Atari Battlezone

Atari Berzerk

Atari Breakout

Atari Canyon Bomber

Atari Centipede

Atari Crazy Climber

Atari Crossbow

Atari Crystal Castles

Atari Defender

Atari Defender II (AKA Stargate)

Atari Dig Dug

Atari Galaxian

Atari Gravitar

Atari Ikari Warriors

Atari Joust

Atari Jr. Pac-Man

Atari Jungle Hunt

Atari Kangaroo

Atari Klax

Atari Mario Bros

Atari Millipede

Atari Missile Command

Atari Moon Patrol

Atari Ms. Pac-Man

Atari Night Driver

Atari Outlaw

Atari Pac-Man

Atari Pengo

Atari Phoenix

Atari Pole Position

Atari Road Runner

Atari Sky Diver

Atari Space Invaders

Atari Stargate

Atari Super Breakout

Atari Track and Field

Atari Vanguard

Atari Warlords

Atari Xenophobe

 

CBS Electronics Blue Print

CBS Electronics Gorf

CBS Electronics Omega Race

CBS Electronics Solar Fox

CBS Electronics Wizard of Wor

 

Coleco Carnival

Coleco Donkey Kong

Coleco Donkey Kong Jr.

Coleco Front Line

Coleco Mouse Trap

Coleco Mr. Do!

Coleco Roc'N Rope

Coleco Time Pilot

Coleco Venture

Coleco Zaxxon

 

Konami Pooyan

Konami Strategy X

 

M-Network Bump 'N' Jump

M-Network Burger Time

M-Network Lock 'N' Chase

 

Parker Brothers Amidar

Parker Brothers Frogger

Parker Brothers Gyruss

Parker Brothers Mr. Do!'s Castle

Parker Brothers Popeye

Parker Brothers Q*Bert

Parker Brothers Q*bert's Qubes

Parker Brothers Reactor

Parker Brothers Sky Skipper

Parker Brothers Star Wars Arcade Game

Parker Brothers Super Cobra

Parker Brothers Tutankham

 

Sears Steeplechase

 

Sega Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom

Sega Congo Bongo

Sega Spy Hunter

Sega Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator

Sega Tac/Scan

Sega Tapper

Sega Up'n Down

 

Starpath Frogger (The Official)

 

Tigervision Espial

Tigervision Polaris

Tigervision River Patrol

Tigervision Springer

 

Prototypes:

 

Atari Elevator Action

Atari Elk Attack (working title for Electric Yo-Yo)

Atari Millipede (GCC version)

Atari Sinistar

Atari Stunt Cycle

Atari Tempest

Atari Xevious

 

Coleco Turbo

 

M-Network Anteater

M-Network Loco-Motion

 

UA Limited Funky Fish

UA Limited Pleiades

 

Homebrews:

 

Manuel Rotschkar Colony 7

Manuel Rotschkar Crazy Balloon

Manuel Rotschkar GunFight

Chris Walton Juno First

John Champeau Lady Bug

Darrell Spice Medieval Mayhem (based on the arcade version of Warlords)

Dennis Debro Pac-Man 4K

David Weavil Phantom II

Manuel Rotschkar Seawolf

Darrell Spice Space Rocks (Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe)

D. Scott Williamson Star Castle

Manuel Rotschkar Starfire

 

Cases could also be made for Chetiry (and other Tetris clones) and Boulder Dash since there were arcade versions of those games as well. But those were less ports of the arcade versions, than of the console/home computer versions.

@Nathan Strum  I'm looking at the list you posted nine years ago.  Thank you for sharing it.  I don't see anything on there that I think shouldn't be there.  The breakdown by company and by type is very helpful.

 

BTW, the ones that you name at the top (Indy 500, Dragster, Circus Atari, Space War and Sub/Scan), I do include on my own arcade list.  

 

I think I see what you mean about Megamania and Astro Blaster.  Similar but different.  I just made a new sub-folder in my Stella ROMS parent folder called "Similar to Arcade" and so far I have put Star Wars Ewok Adventure (prototype), Robot Tank and The Activision Decathlon in it.  (To me, they resemble the Star Wars ROTJ, Battlezone and Track & Field arcade games.)  I think there will be a lot of games "similar to arcade" for me to put into that folder as time goes by.  

 

Again, great list.  Thanks very much for sharing it.  

Edited December 9, 2023 by Living Room Arcade

[Living Room Arcade]

9 hours ago, Nathan Strum said:

For Sky Diver, Atari produced both the arcade and 2600 versions. So it *could* be considered a home version of the arcade game. Whether or not Atari was trying to entice people to buy the 2600 version as an actual port of the arcade game is something I can't answer. I don't recall that being a selling point for the 2600 until Space Invaders. Then bringing home arcade games became the reason many people bought 2600s. I think a lot of early 2600 games were made simply because they *could* be made, and Atari already owned the trademarks from the arcade side. I bought Missile Command along with my 2600, because it was an arcade port. But at the time, I had no idea Combat was based on Tank. I don't think I'd ever seen a Tank cabinet.

 

As for Frogs and Flies/Frog Pond, and other games clearly influenced by arcade titles, I think it's all subject to ones own interpretation whether it's "arcade" or not. How close is the gameplay? Is it a spot-on copy of the arcade game? Then it would at least fall into the "influenced by" category. But without an attribution stating that it was licensed from Gremlin, it's not official.

On my list, I count Sky Diver as arcade.  To me, it's exact or nearly exact.  I'm still deciding about Frog Pond (prototype) and Frogs and Flies.  I also just added the homebrew Hunchy which to me is the home arcade version of the Hunch Back arcade game.  I guess it's all one's own subjective interpretations, as you were saying.