Official Atari arcade games released on cassette

[lbaeza]

Hi there

 

I know Space Invaders was officially released on cassette by Atari in the US.

 

What other games have been officially released by Atari US on cassette?

 

I know SCRAM, Kingdom and Juggle's Rainbow where released on cassette also, but these are listed under the Utility or Educational category (I don't remember that correctly, though...) on Atarimania. My question is more related to arcade games...

Regards,

 

Louis BQ

 

 

[AlecRob]

I'm actually interested in building myself a collection of homemade bootleg cassette tape games. i gotta get some tapes on ebay!

[zzip]

Hi there

 

I know Space Invaders was officially released on cassette by Atari in the US.

 

What other games have been officially released by Atari US on cassette?

 

I know SCRAM, Kingdom and Juggle's Rainbow where released on cassette also, but these are listed under the Utility or Educational category (I don't remember that correctly, though...) on Atarimania. My question is more related to arcade games...

Regards,

 

Louis BQ

 

 

 

I can't think of anything outside of the educational/productivity stuff, and Atari Program Exchange games.

 

The mainstream arcade ports Atari did were almost all on cartridge I think to reach the widest audience possible.

Edited April 4, 2017 by zzip

[Rybags]

I'll take a punt and say "None from Atari's US based operation" aside from the already mentioned Space Invaders.
But, a search of Atarimania with Atari UK as the publisher reveals a few:

- Star Raiders, Asteroids, Missile Command and Centipede as part of Compilation Tape A. http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-compilation-a_7025.html

(compilations B and C have games that aren't arcade ports)

- Pole Position.

 

Might be interesting to look further into these titles to see if they were converted to work on <48K Ram machines. In theory a 16K cartridge could be converted for 32K Ram machine. And the early 8K titles that assumed only 8K Ram might be present could be converted to work with 16K Ram.

[+hunmanik]

Blackjack and/or Biorhythm might sorta count, both were cassette releases and both were categorized as "home entertainment" by Atari in the Rev C catalog (1982) I'm looking at.

[+Stephen]

Not sure what category Energy Czar was - but the only two cassettes I ever had were States & Capitals, and Energy Czar.

[Rybags]

I was only considering "arcade" as meaning official ports of same named arcade titles.

[lbaeza]

Guys, thanks for the answers so far.

 

Rybags, I totally forgot about Atari UK and the famous compilation tape containg the Glenn-The-5200-man's port of the 5200 Centipede.

Regarding this compilation...do you know if these games were loaded using custom loaders? Or maybe the plain "!" loader?

 

Michael, that's interesting. I noticed both titles are BASIC, so I pressume those are loaded using the CLOAD command.

 

Kind regards,

 

Louis BQ

[Rybags]

They have loaders where the game title is shown in Gr. 2 text.

Possibly custom but I suspect I've seen it somewhere in the past.

Really I'd like to think that they'd have bothered to at least make their own loader and intro screen but if they've taken Glenn the 5200's Centipede hack and used it then who knows how lazy they'd get for the rest of the content.