Submarine Commander is a shoot 'em up for the Atari 2600 developed by Matthew Hubbard at Atari, Inc. . It released exclusively under the Sears Tele-Games label in 1982.
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30-446: The action via a periscope that can be rotated through 360 degrees - a rarity for the time. Information provided to the player includes a radar scope, a depth-charge-detector, a fuel gauge, and an engine temperature gauge for detecting engine-overheating. There are eight modes of play, made up of single and two-player mode and four different levels of difficulty for each. The game was one of three developed by Atari exclusively for Sears,
40-593: The console and many games from Atari, Inc., selling them under different names. Three cartridges were Sears exclusives. The list contains 517 games, divided into three sections: The console was released with nine cartridges: Air-Sea Battle , Basic Math , Blackjack , Combat , Indy 500 , Star Ship , Street Racer , Surround and Video Olympics . The final licensed Atari 2600 games released in North America were Ikari Warriors , MotoRodeo , Sentinel , and Xenophobe in early 1991, and
50-504: The final licensed games released in Europe were Klax and Acid Drop in 1990 and 1992 respectively. All 127 of the initial era of Atari 2600 games (between the console's launch in 1977 and the summer of 1980) were developed and manufactured by Atari, Inc. These games were published by Atari, and many were also licensed to Sears , which released these games under its Tele-Games brand, often with different titles. Sears's Tele-Games brand
60-486: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Acid_drop&oldid=702129095 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Acid Drop (game) The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 1977. Sears licensed
70-526: The market and published more than 380 of their own cartridges for the Atari 2600. Many of the most popular Atari 2600 games , such as Pitfall! and Demon Attack , are third-party games. The Atari 2600 has been a popular platform for homebrew projects, with 88 games publicly released. Unlike later systems, the Atari 2600 does not require a modchip to run cartridges. Many games are clones of existing games written as programming challenges, often borrowing
80-557: The name of the original. In 2003, Activision selected several games for inclusion in the Game Boy Advance version of their Activision Anthology , as indicated below. Adventure Included in the Atari Flashback 2 as Atari Climber . Submarine Commander (Atari 2600) The player controls a submarine going through enemy territory. The player must shoot targets in order to win the game. The player views
90-514: The others being Stellar Track and Steeplechase . It was based on the Midway arcade game Sea Wolf II that was played with a periscope. A December 1982 review in Joystik magazine described Submarine Commander as being a "very basic shooting-gallery type game." A retrospective review at 8-Bit Central said the game was "not a visually pleasing experience", but that it the complexity of
100-487: Was unrelated to the company Telegames , which also produced cartridges for the Atari 2600 (mostly re-issues of M Network games.) Three games were also produced by Atari Inc. for Sears as exclusive releases under the Tele-Games brand: Steeplechase , Stellar Track , and Submarine Commander . As the Atari 2600 console grew in popularity, in 1980 other game developers, such as Activision and Imagic , entered
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