Atari 800 Caverns of Mars

I played this on the Atari 400 and had to load it from cassette!  :-o :-D Played for hours and hours! :-D Thanks for the memories!

It doesn't seem like you go any faster no matter how high or low you are on the screen. Could you hang back a bit and still survive before the place explodes?

This was one of the most vivid memories of the Atari 800 that my dad bought our family for Christmas. We had this game on the tape drive which was really complex for us as kid's to load but when it was loaded we would play it for hours.

I loved this game!!!

Good, but the graphics seems to be more blocky than it is usual for an Atari 8-bit game, does this have to do anything with the absence of GTIA chip in Ataris before 1982 (they used CTIA before and this game is from 1981)?Does anybody know what resolution this game used, please?

CoM was programmed as a submission to the Atari Program Exchange, which might explain why its graphics are a bit behind the curve for the era.

great!!! ^^

I had this game set up on the dining room table showing my family what my computer (atari 400 and an 800) could do. Had my younger sister playing it too. Memories. :-)

Thanks for posting one of my favorites!

mission failed!!