atari 2600

Programmer Credit Holding Fire and power on the Atari 2600. A dot will appear in the top row of targets. Shoot that dot before it turns into a duck to display the message "Programmed by S. Kitchen", in reference to Steve Kitchen. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Joystick Control Although paddles are the default controllers for the game, a joystick may be used during the Land Bomber games. Press Left to shoot from the red planes or Right to shoot from the yellow planes. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Give Damage To Next Player Allow a fireball to hit your character's legs just when exiting the treasure room. Most of the damage will end up on the next player. | [Sent by Stryker82] Run Backwards Hold Fire to jump, then immediately press the Joystick in the opposite direction your...

Skip Level Introductions Press Fire during an introduction. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Move Through Walls Enter the warp tunnel and quickly and repeatedly press Up, Down while inside. Make sure Down is the last direction pressed before Pac-Man re-appears to wipe across the screen. You may move Pac-Man up and down through the walls, but will not be able to move from side to...

Disable Star Field Use the Color/BW switch to toggle the star field display. Note: This only works on cartridges with the lighter and smaller lettering on the label.

Continue Game Play Press Select after losing a life to resume game play from the last location played. | [Sent by Stryker82] Extra Car And Points Begin game play and do not destroy any other cars. An extra car and 50,000 points will be awarded at the end of the level. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Programmer Credits Collect a humanoid on the wave 25. Position your ship at the same height where it begins each wave, at scan line 25 on the screen. Remaining opponents on the screen will change to "BP", the initials of programmer Bob Polaro.

Mad Bomber Surprise Score at least 10,000 points to surprise the Mad Bomber. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Unlimited Balls Choose any of the "catch" games and begin game play. Catch your last ball, press Select, then release the ball. Game play will continue in demonstration mode, with unlimited balls but no points scored. | [Sent by Stryker82]

Match Strategy 1 As in most boxing games, the key is to keep the correct distance. Of course you want to win, but you can't do so if you just attack, wild punches thrown are not usually the right way to win in this game. I recommend you keep your distance with your opponent, to avoid his...

Aiming Another aspect of this game is aiming for the opponents head which is the only damaging spot to hit the opponent at. Line up your fists with the opponents head and press the fire button. You will hit the opponent with luck. | [Sent by Stryker82] Block A Punch What you need to do is...

Activating Shields If you want to activate your shields, simply pull the joystick downward while pressing the button. Be advised that using your shields costs you points. If you have no points you cannot activate your shields. | [Sent by Stryker82] Game Difficulties There are four...

Flying Tanks Select game 9 and begin game play. Rotate the tank on the left 180 degrees and fire. If done correctly, the shot will bounce around the screen and hit the right tank. Both tanks should fly approximately three screens to the left before stopping. | [Sent by Stryker82] Spinning...

Avoiding Evil Otto Never run from Evil Otto along the bottom of the screen. Otto will take smaller bounces and outrun your character. | [Sent by Stryker82] Crazy Bullets Note: The following trick requires a disassembled Atari joystick in order to activate two opposite directions at the same...

Control CPU Use the Joystick two to control the CPU player. | [Sent by Stryker82]

No Small Rocks Set the system to track approximately five objects with different velocities. Then, shoot a large rock to completely destroy it, without creating smaller rocks. | [Sent by Stryker82]

White asteroids Fry the machine until the opening log is all messed up. All games will have white Asteroids and be positioned on the right side of the screen. Also, UFO's and Saucers will emerge from the same place and consistently fire in the same direction. | [Sent by inter_a]

Landing Landing is a bit trickier, and probably the most difficult aspect of "Air Raiders". What you need to do is descend to 0 feet. Do this slowly,taking the last 3000 feet one at a time. Cruise at 0 feet for a few seconds and your see the runway. Now do the most counter-intuitive move...

Programmer Credit Hold Select Down and turn on the Atari 2600 (or press Reset). The programmer's names/credits will appear under the title.