Atari Party 2014
Saturday, June 14th, 10am-4pm
Sunnyvale Public Library
As always, Atari Party 2014 included a wide variety of games and
systems, spanning multiple decades! While not a comprehensive list, the
following gives you an idea of the kinds of games and systems
that were available at the event! Thanks to the many
volunteers for offering to
bring their collections!
The Systems
- Home video game consoles and handhelds:
- Atari 2600 Video Computer System (VCS) bk, kk
- Atari Flashback (models 1, 2 & 4) (2600) dgm
- Atari Flashback 2 bk
- Atari TV Paddle Games bk
- Atari 5200 SuperSystem jh, dk, ddv
- Atari 7800 bk, dk
- Atari Lynx II (x2)bk
- Atari Jaguar bk, kk
- Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) bk, bu
- GameBoy Advance (GBA) (x2) bk
- Sega SG-1000 II bu
- Sega Genesis bk
- Sony PlayStation (PSX) bk
- Sony PlayStation2 (PS2) bk
- Personal computers:
- Atari 8-bits
- Atari 400 cs
- Atari 800 cs, dk
- Atari 800 (Incognito) aob
- Atari 600XL (PAL) dg
- Atari 800XL (PAL) bk, cs (x2)
- Atari 1200XL bk, cs
- Atari 130XE aob
- Atari 130XE (PAL) dmd
- Atari XEGS bu
- Atari 16/32-bits
- Atari 520STe pl
- Atari 1040STe pl
- Atari Mega/STe pl
- Atari STE dmd
- Others
- Arcade games
- Star Wars mb
- Tempest mb
- Centipede mb
- Asteroids mb
The Games
Some popular games you might recognize:
- Adventure
- Alien vs. Predator
- Arkanoid (1 & 2)
- Asteroids
- Ballblazer
- BattleChess
- Battlesphere
- Battlezone
- Berzerk
- Boulderdash
- Breakout
- California Games
- Centipede
- Combat
- Commando
- Congo Bongo
- Crystal Castles
- Defender
- Demon Attack
- Dig Dug
- Donkey Kong
- Double Dragon (1, 2 & 3)
- Dragon's Lair
- E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
- Food Fight
- Frogger
- Galaxian
- Gauntlet (1 & 2)
- International Karate +
- Joust
- Jr. Pac-Man
- Jungle Hunt
- Kaboom!
- Karateka
- Kings Quest 4
- Klax
- Lemmings (1 & 2)
- Line Runner
- Milipede
- Missile Command
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Night Driver
- Ninja Gaiden III
- Parachute (Game & Watch)
- Pac-Man
- Pitfall!
- Pole Position
- Police QUest 2
- Pong
- Popeye
- Q*Bert
- QIX
- R-Type
- Raiden
- Rescue on Fractulus
- RoadBlasters
- Robotron: 2084
- Rygar
- Shadow of the Beast
- Space Ace
- Space Harrier
- Space Invaders
- Space Quest 3
- Stampede
- Star Raiders
- Star Wars
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
- S.T.U.N. Runner
- Super Breakout
- Super Cobra
- Super Hang-On
- Tempest
- Tempest 2000
- Tetris
- Warlords
- Xevious
- Yoomp!
- Yars' Revenge
There'll be quite a bit more than just these titles, though!
Why Non-Atari Systems?!
You might notice a few game systems and computers being brought that
were not of the Atari brand! Don't fret, they were running
Atari games!
Atari Games' "Tengen" division ported their arcade games
(like Klax and RoadBlasters) to a number
of home game consoles, including the Nintendo NES and
Sega Genesis. Some arcade games from the Atari Inc.
era were also licensed to other publishers, for release on the NES.
Even earlier, Atari Inc.'s "Atarisoft" divison ported
arcade games by Atari (like Asteroids and
Crystal Castles) and others
(like Namco's Pole Position and
Williams Electronic's Joust and
Robotron: 2084) to a variety of early 1980s
home computers, like the Apple II, Commodore 64
and BBC Micro!
More recently, Activision and the current Atari have released ports or
emulators of both classic arcade games and Atari 2600 titles
for modern game systems, like the Nintendo GameBoy Advance
and the Sony's PlayStation and PlayStation 2.