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Atari 2600 Game History
An incomplete chronological history of Atari 2600 VCS games.

Below are pages for 1982 and 1983. They are not complete, but they do contain a lot of the games most people cared about along with pop culture information. If you find a mistake, or have more information to add such as month/year release dates for games, please contact me. Thanks for your help.

Information compiled from the following sources:

The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers

Atari History Museum

(Atari Historical Society)

Steve R's Atari 2600 Rarity List

Dragon's Lair Project

GameWinners.com

440 International: Those Were the Days (Today in History)

Rock on the Net: The Ark Weekly Top 40 Archives

The Killer List Of Videogames (KLOV)

The Billboard Book of Top 40 hits (5th Edition) by Joel Whitburn

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows (5th Edition) by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

Atari Age magazine

Activisions (Activision newsletter)

Videogaming Illustrated magazine

Electronic Games magazine

Book & Video Update newsletter

Special Thanks to:

Charles Goddeeris

Glenn Saunders and Russ Perry Jr. from Cyberpunks Entertainment

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