Every Atari 2600 Telegames Game

This video features gameplay footage and box art from all 19 games published for the Atari 2600 by Telegames.
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[@petewillson205]

TELEGAMES, the only 3rd party that stuck with Atari till the bitter end, even being the sole video game producer in 96 to 98 as a favor to Jack, so that Atari could still claim some support was available for Jag, and he could get his reverse stock merger with the disk drive company. Those last games for the Jag were actually some of the better games released. Worms, breakout, is2

[@wallacelang1374]

The Telegames titles in Europe for the most part were originally the M-Network titles in the United States and Canada. M-Network was the Atari game sub division of Mattel Electronics.

[@Mrshoujo]

These are all M Network games made by Mattel, some adapted from their Intellivision system. They even originally (and cheaply) adapted the INTV shells to work on the 2600. GX-12 is really a TRON game. Those boxes even use the original design with a new logo where M Network would be. Night Stalker was called Dark Cavern. Kung Fu Superkicks was a Xonox title with "Chuck Norris."

[@TheLairdsLair]

Not strictly true. Both Quest for Quintana Roo and Glacier Patrol are original games. Both developed by Sunrise Software who linked up with UK company Telegames to become Telegames USA. Universal Chaos was a slight adaptation of CBS Electronics' Targ prototype.

[@mgabrysSF]

Sounds like telegrams scooped up 2600 IPs being sold on fire-sale. First Mattel, then Sunrise. Nothing original there.

[@Goldnfoxx]

God, we were easily amused.

[@Larry]

Were a lot of these games re-issues with the license removed?

[@TheLairdsLair]

Not really. Telegames re-published a lot of the old M-Network (Mattel) games, re-published Xonox's Chuck Norris Super Kicks without the license, picked up the prototype of Targ from CBS and released that as Universal Chaos and also published a couple of their own original games too.

[@Larry]

@@TheLairdsLair The American Football game, wasn't it an NFL license originally? Also the Tron name is missing from Deadly Discs Etc.

[@TheLairdsLair]

Only on the Intellivision. And yes, the Tron name was removed from 2 titles, forgot about those.

[@dankydiecast5686]

I didn’t get my Atari 2600 until it was nearing its end in popularity. It was around 1984 I think. They were piled up in the stores and were super cheap. The games were only a few bucks each. I had six of these games in the video but I was mainly a huge fan of the Activision games. They always seemed to me like they were of better quality than all the other brands. All total I had about 70 Atari games when I finally bought a Nintendo system. Fun times. Great memories playing the Atari 2600 with my three brothers.

[@TheLairdsLair]

I got my Atari 2600 in 1989, it was far from dead in 1984, it was just taking a rest!

[@madmax2069]

Ahh the Sears games for the VCS/2600, probably the only ones that I never bothered with as they was just the same thing over and over again, yeah a few originals, but when the majority of your VCS/2600 lineup is the same thing you tend to just skip them entirely.

[@TheLairdsLair]

You are completely mixing up Sears Tele-Games (the department store brand) and Telegames, who were a mail order company who also went to develop games and are still around. This is the latter of those and whilst Telegames did re-release a lot of M-Network's stuff they did have some original titles too like Glacier Patrol and Quest for Quintana Roo.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

On that very first game, I swear I saw phone jacks

[@elijahvincent985]

There is some SEAR-iou-S-ly bad marketing for certain titles on the list!

[@TheLairdsLair]

This would be a clever joke, but Sears Tele-Games and Telegames (the company here) are totally unrelated!

[@colinmcdonald2499]

I was starting to wonder if this was a repeat video... After seeing Mattell Ganes I got that Space Attack game for 2 bucks after the video game crash. Was that an original? I don't recall it in other company reviews.

[@imaxjunior6531]

The game is based on Intellivision's title called Space Battle. Very close in comparison.

[@adultmoshifan87]

Although Telegames have released SOME bad games, I would like to see at least one Telegames Collection for the Evercade! It could feature: some of these Atari 2600 games Fat Bobby (Lynx) Rhino Rumble (Game Boy Color) Ultimate Brain Games (Game Boy Advance) Iron Soldier 3 (PlayStation) I have before now suggested the Evercade get an Epyx Collection, but I've been hit back with word that the Master System versions of Impossible Mission, World Games and Summer Games aren't as good as their C64 counterparts and that MD California Games, SNES California Games 2 and PSone Battle Bugs would be the only justifiable additions! Maybe Pitstop could be released for the Evercade as part of a Colecovision Collection?

[@TheLairdsLair]

There's loads of good content you could put on a Telegames collection as they published games for the 2600, Lynx, Jaguar, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and PlayStation. I'd personally do a few different collections; an Atari Lynx one could have Bubble Trouble, Fat Bobby, Hyper Drome, Krazy Ace, Ultimate Chess Challenge, Euro Soccer Challenge and maybe Double Dragon (given they already have a Technos license). You could even stick the Guardians Storm Over Doria prototype on there as a bonus. Then an Atari 2600 and ColecoVision collection with Quest For Quintana Roo, Glacier Patrol, Universal Chaos (all 2600) and Skiing, Amazing Bumpman and Alcazar (ColecoVision). I even offered to put Blaze in contact with the owner of Telegames, but they never took me up on it. I don't get the Epyx argument at all. The Atari 7800 and Master System ports are absolutely fine, better in some regards, such as graphics. You also have the 2600 Epyx games as well as ALL the Starpath Supercharger games, which Epyx own. Then you have some Epyx games from the Coleco like Gateway to Apshai, Pitstop and Jumpman Junior. You don't always need to have the best version of every game. In fact stuff like the Oliver Twins collection has shown Evercade don't really care about that argument anyway.

[@adultmoshifan87]

@@TheLairdsLair I think Blaze may need to pick a new boss to handle Evercade better. I think the Oliver Twins collection is good, but they could easily have used the Master System version of Fantastic Dizzy!