About
Halo 2600 is an action-adventure video game developed for the Atari 2600 video game console, inspired by the Halo series of video games. Halo 2600 was written by Ed Fries, former vice president of game publishing at Microsoft, who was involved in Microsoft's acquisition of Halo developers Bungie Studios. Fries decided to create a version of Halo for the Atari 2600 after being inspired by a book called Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort. The Atari 2600 had such limited RAM, only 128 bytes, that drawing Master Chief was difficult, and creating a game with other characters was even more so. Fries later stated that making the game taught him that constraint is sometimes a fuel for creativity.
- Developer
- Ed Fries
- Publisher
- AtariAge
- Genres
- Shooter, Adventure
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- IGDB rating
- 70 / 100 (5 ratings)
Release dates
| Platform | Release |
|---|---|
| Atari 2600 |
Screenshots
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