Here are Atari VCS games,            
that have been hacked
for new graphics or new gameplay
to offer a new kind of pleasure
and to (re)discover them.
Enjoy !

Enhanced hack
These are improvements to sprites, scenery and/or colors. These hacks do not alter gameplay.
> Pac-Man 4K (NPS)
> Pac-Man 8K EG (NPS)
> Dark Mage

Skin Hack
These hacks recontextualize the universe in which the action takes place. These hacks do not fundamentally change the gameplay.
> Pac-Man Mutation
> Tron Invaders
> Space Invaders Challenge
> Pengo 2 : Sno-Bees' Balls (NPS)
> Go Get Fat

Gameplay Hack
This hack changes the gameplay, in the sense that it allows a game usually limited to two players to practice with four.
> Surround 4
3 kind of hacks
The downloadable games on this page have been divided into three categories of hacks, depending on the nature of the modifications applied (see opposite).

The games are listed below in order from newest to oldest.

Some games mention NPS (click here to learn more about this concept). Other games carry the epithet "EG" (Enhanced Graphics) to signify that the graphics have been improved.

Pac-Man 8K (NPS)
Le plus beau Pac-Man sur Atari 2600 enfin en Sécam !
Pac-Man 8K (NPS)
On the occasion of the Pac-Man contest organized for Retroplay 2022, Little Rabbit and Zeelay made an adaptation of Pac-Man 8K in NPS. Visitors were thus able to play a Pac-Man in splendid RGB colors on a Sécam console for the first time! The EG version brings some fixes in the drawing of the fruits to make them more faithful to the arcade version.
> Pac-Man 8K (NPS)
> Pac-Man 8K EG (NPS)

Pac-Man 4K (NPS)
Pac-Man compatible Ntsc-Pal-Sécam
Pac-Man 4K (NPS)
Happy to finally have a nice Pac-Man for my 2600 (but unhappy to not being able to play it properly on my Sécam console), I threw myself into the NPS pallet of this essential title. Result: the colors are even more beautiful than in Ntsc ;)
> Télécharger Pac-Man 4K (NPS)

Surround 4
Four players can now fight together at the same time
in this classic Atari 2600 Tron-like game.
Surround 4
If you loved Warlords, Street Racer, Video Olympics and Medieval Mayhem, because they allow four players to fight at the same time, then you will surely love Surround 4 too ! It is the first game that allow four players to play on the Atari 2600 with joysticks. But be aware that you will need a hacked Atari 2600 console that has four joysticks ports.
> Download Surround 4
> See the video

Go Get Fat - Atari 2600
Eat everything except the purple pickles,
or the seventh one will make you loose.
Go Get Fat
Fast Food has an easy-to-get gameplay : You must eat everything, except the purple pickles (they are absolutely indigestible). I never liked the shape of the original mouth, so I redrew it to be closer to the sexy one on the art cover of the box. I also redrew the end-level screen to have a nicer score with a bold font, and renamed  the game Go Get Fat.
> Download "Go Get Fat"


Atari 2600 - Double Pac-Man Jawbreaker
A moving Maze, the so-familiar ghosts,
and still Pac-Man... with two mouths !

Pac-Man Mutation
Three millions years after Pac-Man, his descendances are still chased by ghosts. Their genetic code is so limited that they haven't evolved, but the evolution by natural selection changed Pac-Man... he now has two mouths!  He can eat faster in a new maze with moving walls. The original game (Jawbreaker) used to drive you crazy... this hack will do the same.
> Pac-Man Mutation
Deactivate all these logic-cells
or they will tell the MCP that you are an intruder here !


Tron Invaders
In the Tron movie from 1982, the hero escaped the Tanks and then find himself in a room where logic-cells scan him as a bug (the movie was too long and the scene has been deleted). These cells are trying to reach the line-base (to contact the MCP and teel him that a bug is here. You must kill them all or the MCP will know about you and will erase you!
> Tron Invaders
A little text mode game... on the Atari 2600 !


Dark Mage
This unusual text-mode game on the 2600 is pretty interesting. But it was a bit too flashy to me (yellow font on a magenta background). So I made the colors much more classic (just black & white) and redrew the typo. For a more coloured version, I made a variation and changed again the font to have it match with the Atari 8bit screen (in graphic mode 1), just like the Atari 800 XL did.

> Dark Mage Grey
> Dark Mage 8bit (800 XL)
 
Challenge #2... if you manage this level,
then try the last one and become the SI-Master!


Space Invaders Challenge
Not one, not two, but three challenges awaiting for you! The first one will be a bit harder than the original Space Invaders. But if you can manage the second one, then launch the third to become the master of Space Invaders!

> Space Invaders Challenge
 
Two Sno-Bees from Pengo
have found a new funny game (Ntsc screenshot).
This game is working fine in Ntsc, Pal and Secam,
by using the Color/BW switch (Secam screenshot).

Pengo 2 : Sno-Bees' Balls
Do you remember the Sno-Bees... You know, the bad guys who used to chase Pengo back in the 80s... Well, two of them have escaped from the ice floe and found someone else to bother... I mean something else: balls of clouds, dancing in the sky that they try to reach, by jumping on a trampoline sliding on the ice. It's funnier than chasing Pengo, but also dangerous if a Sno-Bee don't fall on the right side of the trampolin.

Multistandard : This game works in NTSC, PAL and SECAM. It works by itself with a console, but if running in an emulator with SECAM palette, place the Color/B&W button on the B&W position.

> Download "Sno-Bees"

Very important : Don't play it with a joystick (or with the arrows of the keyboard if using an emulator). This is a paddle game, and the only way to have it to be fun is to play with paddles (or the mouse if using an amulator).