River Raid

River Raid is a scrolling shooter videogame and was released in 1982 by Activision for the Atari 2600, and later the Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, C64 , ColecoVision, IBM PCjr, Intellivision, ZX Spectrum, and MSX. The player controls an airplane...

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...on that device, with the original game name listed beside: Desert Strike - Chopper Command (Activision) - 1982 (001) River Raid - River Raid (Activision) - 1982 (002) Pacmania (1) - Pac-Man (Atari) - 1981 (003) Wolf Fight - Pooyan...

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...featured on the PS2 and computer versions, but does not include Commando or the homebrew titles. There was also a mini version of the collection released on mobile phones with only 3 titles. It included Pitfall, H.E.R.O., and River Raid.

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...prices. I noticed that there aren't any wallets made from third-party games for sale, which is a bummer, because I would totally dig a River Raid wallet. Or Megamania. Or Seaquest. no one would ever think to steal an E.T. cartridge.

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...originally wanted about $5 each for his boxed video games to give me five of them for $10. Those games were Activision's Beamrider and River Raid for Intellivision, B-17 Bomber, and Lone Ranger and Championship Bowling for NES. All of them...

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...Video Computer System. The cartridges are virtually identical to the Activision cartridges, but the Activision logo on the underside is blacked out. Super Hit Pak (5-in-1 cartridge: River Raid, Grand Prix, Fishing Derby, Sky Jinks, Checkers)

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...and rudimentary nature of the 2600's hardware offered unanticipated ways to innovate on the platform and allowed for games as enjoyable as River Raid, as mockable as E.T., and as execrable as the "adult" Custer's Revenge. FacebookMySpace...

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...any three systems looked damn good. Then you had Activision which pushed some limits of the imgination, but very colorful games. Including River Raid, Barnstorming, Freeway, Stampeed, Pitfall 1 and II (II always pissed me off), and Chopper...

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Air Raid, not to be confused with Air Raiders or River Raid, is considered to be the rarest game released for the Atari 2600. It was the only game released by MenAvision and had an extremely limited distribuition. Its cartridge is a blue...

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...flicker around the bases in Super Action Baseball; and helping my color-blind brother figure out which blocks he'd changed in Q*bert. Plus: River Raid, Time Pilot, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Cosmic Avenger, Donkey Kong, Venture,...

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