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I thought there were going to be Atari 2600 games to teach programming concepts but this is pretty close so upvote


This is the only one unfortunately…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Programming

The Atari VCS's RAM size of 128 bytes restricts the possibilities for writing programs.

That’s not a typo, and also a severe limitation.


"Program is where instructions are typed. It has a maximum of eleven lines of code."

Egads.


I had this as a kid. It was very difficult to enter text. The whole experience was underwhelming, unfortunately. Thank you to my parents who bought it for me. I’m a programmer to this day.


AFAIK this is the only programming game on the Atari 2600, so I was excited for a bit reading the plural in the post's title.

BTW that cover image is epic.


In modern time people use Batari BASIC which allows relatively sophisticated programming for the VCS.




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