Unreleased Atari! The Atari 2600 Games that Never Were - This week on Atari Unlimited!

And Let me tell you something, Aaron.

When I put this as a votable subject, I thought, well, you know, I'll pull the 10 or 12 unreleased games and we'll talk about them.

Good times.

Did you really think that? Yeah, I did.

I knew better.

and there are so many i mean hundreds of unreleased games yeah just for the atari 2600 that we had to narrow down the scope considerably holy cow and there's no way you can talk

about all of them there are way too many i'm looking at a list here if you go over to the atari compendium they've got a great web page of unreleased games to the atari I'm just looking at games that were in the works from Atari.

That's not counting all the other people.

And there are dozens of games.

And, I mean, we're not talking, like, Big Joe's tire repair.

I'm talking stuff like The A-Team.

You know what I'm saying? Or, like, Elevator Action.

All these from the 20th century.

I never in my wildest dreams thought that anyone had even thought about working on something like Elevator Action.

Well...

And that got me wondering, Aaron.

I was like, okay, so there are all these games, a tremendous amount of games.

We need to find out why these games never came to market.

And it...

When you boil it all down, there's five main subjects that you can say, this game didn't get to market for this reason.

And really, the fifth one's kind of a shoo-in to get all the game types in.

So we're going to go over those, Aaron.

And let me tell you, this is...

Some of these make sense, some of them don't.

So we're gonna start with the one that killed most games.