Kevin Bunch    At first glance, Stellar Track seems like a minor VCS release, and it is - as a Sears exclusive that requires the instruction manual to learn to play...

Kevin Bunch    March 1981 introduced a pair of novelties to the VCS library, in that they are first-party Atari games that are also retailer-exclusives....

Kevin Bunch    At this point in the VCS’s history, the platform has hosted a slew of traditional, real world games. Chess, checkers, backgammon, blackjack, and...

Kevin Bunch    Atari didn’t take long to open up 1981 with a new release, as Championship Soccer - or Pele’s Championship Soccer, as it was quickly rebranded...

Kevin Bunch    Rounding out the blockbuster year of 1980, Bridge is perhaps the most niche release to come out of Activision on the VCS. In fact, it’s arguably the...

Kevin Bunch    While Atari itself may have wrapped up its 1980 wares in September, Activision had two final games for the year. The company itself announced these...

Kevin Bunch    September 1980 saw a surprising amount of maze-related content published on the VCS. In addition to Carla Meninsky’s Dodge Em, Atari also published...

Kevin Bunch    At the same time Alan Miller was working on Activision’s Checkers cartridge in late 1979, at Atari, Carol Shaw had started work on her own...

Kevin Bunch    Atari has once again returned to the pool of arcade conversions for its second of three fall 1980 releases, Dodge Em. Like Circus Atari or Space...

Kevin Bunch    While David Crane’s other August release, Fishing Derby, was a unique experience in the gaming space, the same can’t exactly be said for his other...