atari 2600

Slower Braking Downshifting will slow your car more gradually than using the brakes. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Always Win Press Left + Fire during game play. | [Sent by Stryker82]

No Random Enemy Bases Press Down to reach the bottom of the screen immediately after collecting the stranded pilot. The enemy bases that are usually randomly located will always appear in the three lowest positions. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Ladder Jump Climb to the top of a ladder and push down on the top of joystick handle, so all four directions are pushed at once. Harry will jump straight up and fall back down. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Hot Spot There is a spot on the volleyball court that a serve will land at a blind spot where your opponent can not return it. Run down about two inches and serve the ball as you are running. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Easy Hit Begin game play in two player mode. Hold Fire as your team is leaving the field in preparation to bat. The opposing pitcher will automatically throw a strike for the first pitch, setting up an easy hit. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Extra Points Jump to the top of the pyramid then wait for Coily to jump to one of the cubes directly below. Press Up/Right to jump off the pyramid just when he is ready to jump to your cube. Coily will also jump off and points will be awarded. However, Q*bert will not lose a life. | [Sent...

Alternate Controllers Instead of using the preferred "Booster Grip" controller, a ColecoVision joystick may be used, using Left Fire or Right Fire to steer. Paddles may also be used, with the buttons used to steer and rotating the paddle clockwise to fire and move forward. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Change Ladder And Plateau Parts Toggle the Left Difficulty switch, Right Difficulty switch, or Color / BW switch during game play. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Extra Points Aim and fire three missiles at the highest part of the screen when game play first begins. Press Reset before the missiles explode. The missiles will remain in view and a varying number points will be added to your score after they explode. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Free Movement Begin game play, toggle the game select switch and resume game play. Quickly toggle the game select switch again before the screen clears, but do not start the new game. Hold Down to move your character around the screen. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Stay In Position Quickly fire to remain in "aim" mode, to prevent being moved up after hitting the three tanks. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Bonus Points Keep jumping just above and below the cocoon on the web screen to increase your score. Note: This only happens when web strands are moving away on the easy difficulty levels. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Hints Jump onto the Escalators, You'll save some time. Don't get stuck on the roof, there's no way down. Don't jump over the beach balls when they bounce high up. Always duck under airplanes. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Alternate Control A keypad controller, Star Raiders touch pad controller, or children's controller may be used to control the game. Press 0 + # to accelerate. Hold 5 and press 2, then release 5 to turn clockwise. Hold 2 and press 5, then release 2 to turn counter-clockwise. | [Sent by...

Reverse Display Frying can cause the "window" to invert itself. In other words, you have mostly open space and a small rotating wall. | [Sent by Syndish]

Empty House Fry until there are no walls and possibly an enemy walks by the screen. Reset the game and there are no objects in any of the rooms. Useless but interesting. | [Sent by Syndish]

Cheating Computer The objective of the game is to score more goals then the computer or friend in a two minute period of non-stop, fast paced, hockey. There is a lot more to do in this game then you think. The computer in both switches is a real frustration because of all the little ways...

Alternate Head Approach the left or right edge of the screen. Carefully move towards the exit, without leaving, to place a dash on your character's head. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Extra Lives Fry until all you see is a miner and spider (but no hero), let the power run out. The game will start with about 250 lives. | [Sent by Syndish]