Top Atari Games – By Sales

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1. What about ET ^^

2. I still remember being disappointed the first time I fired up Pac Man.
   I do play Missile command and Space Invaders on my 2600 from time to time.

3. Now we're talking! 👏👍

4. I don’t see ET. This is rigged. /j 😂

5. Had all those titles

6. 4 of the ones you used immediately came to mnd. I loved Atari. The nostalgia.

7. Where's Q-Bert?

8. Still have my Atari, Nintendo, super Nintendo, and Sega systems in storage, along with a boatload of games. Makes me want to go get them and play! 🤗🕹🎮

9. I still have all of those!

10. I would have thought Defender would be where missle command is in this list? No one I knew played missle command. Just being honest. I'm a legit Gen Xer born in 71.

11. What about Frogger?! Alright, I confess to both loving and loathing that game. 😂😂😂

12. I remember standing in line back home at the local Gee Bee, a Dept store spin off of the flagship Glosser Bros Store, in Johnstown PA to put down a $5 deposit on Pac-Man for the 2600, and then in another line a couple months later when it was released. Everyone was orderly and well-behaved, and we waited patiently in a long line outside until we got to the front of the store and were led back to the electronics Dept to pay the balance and collect our game and hurry home to play it. I was one of the few kids at school who had an Atari, so I didn’t have many schoolmates to share my disappointment with at school the next day as the nation’s kids heaved a massive, collective sigh at the uninspired development of that game which was almost like an entirely different game from what Pac-Man was. Many, many years later, a programmer would recreate and release his version of Pac-Man for the 2600 and it was a spot-on knockout of the real arcade game, and it’s too bad the first iteration wasn’t given that same level of attention and execution. At least the Ms Pac-Man for the 2600 was very true to the original a couple years later when it debuted but the damage was done and it somehow didn’t capture anywhere near the sales of the first Pac-Man cart, and likely due to kids being worried it would look like the first game but with a blocky bow tie on Ms’s head. But I still have the great memory of the excitement we all had back then as dozens or even a couple hundred of us stood in line outside in anticipation of having Pac-Man in our own homes. I still managed to master the 2600 version of the game.

13. No "Yar's Revenge"? What's wrong with people? Don't they know quality games?? 🤣

    I played all of these games and more, including Frogger, Night Driver, Paper Boy, Joust, Crystal Castles, Dig Dug, and many more, back in the day.

14. Not too much of a surprise here. A lot of those games are classics and some of them still hold up today like Space Invaders. Pac-Man of course is still an incredibly massive franchise even to this day, but I'm a little surprised just because I mean I never played it on Atari but I heard that a lot of people said that it was bad on the Atari. Like way worse than the original arcade.

15. It's a shame because that Pacman port blows

16. my favorite was megamaniac

17. Played and loved them all!

18. I played Pitfall, Astrosmash and Demon Attack on my Intellivision.

19. Didn't Asteroids actually come with the purchase of console?

20. Pac-Man was a huge seller, but also the black sheep of arcade game ports.

21. I had each and everyone of them.

22. Where’s ET? I used to love that game!

23. Pitfall was the best

24. Can you do one for other retro systems like Intellivision, Sega Master System, NES, SNES, Turbograx 16, Sega Genesis, N64, etc??? I love these memory lanes of past systems and the games that were really popular in them.

25. I had em all but Pitfall. Loved all these games!!

26. No donkey kong or frogger lol. My favorites

27. We had them all, my favorites were Space Invaders and Pac Man.

28. Those cartridges were 80 dollars each in Canada in 1981

29. I had all of these and a bunch more

30. Space invaders, Pac-Man, asteroids, were my favorites! Loved Atari!

31. Except probly 6 million pacmans were returned

32. Played every single one of them back in the days!

33. Dig Dug

34. Cool. I have an old river raid cassette tape for the computer

35. Awesome! Loved all those games. Atari was so cool back in the day.

36. 5 great games.

37. Very very cool

38. Pitfall was my favorite! I used to babysit for a family that had it and I would play it for hours after the kids went to bed 😂

39. I was expecting the good awful ET game. Despite its reputation as the reason for the gaming crash it seemed like any time I had an atari 2600 that game was always there

40. Was so jealous of the kids who had Atari! I had to go to the arcade to play.

41. Grew up with the Atari. As a matter of fact, we still have it and works well after all these years…. Thanks

42. Cool. Thanks for sharing. 😊

43. The worst Pac-Man port.

44. My older brothers born in ‘70 & ‘74 still have theirs.

45. I have All of these

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