Zimag (stylized as ZiMAG) was the name used by Magnetic Tape International to market consumer products, including video games and blank audio cassettes,

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tapes, and

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s. Magnetic Tape International was a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermagnetic Corporation. The company released games for the

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridg ...

and

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in 1982 and 1983. The 2600 games are from

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ported from

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and with different names. The Atari 8-bit games were developed by Syncro, Inc. Zimag's four Atari 2600 releases received more promotion than the relatively obscure computer games, but they were released during the

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Games

Atari 2600 * ''Cosmic Corridor'' (1983) * ''

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'' (1983) * ''

I Want My Mommy ''I Want My Mommy'' is a video game for the Atari 2600 released in North America by Zimag in 1983. It is a platform game (then called ''climbing games'' by the US press). The game was given the KidStuff logo on the cover art; meaning it was aime ...

'' (1983) * ''Tanks But No Tanks'' (1983) Atari 8-bit computers * ''Cat Nap'' (1983) * ''Collision Course'' (1982, originally promoted as ''Space Mines'') * ''Moon Beam Arcade'' (1983) * ''Nineball'' (1982) * ''River Rat'' (1982) Unreleased * ''Bail Out'' * ''Caverns of Oz'' * ''Kerplop'' (Atari 8-bit) * ''Pizza Chef'' (2600) * ''Quest for Inca Gold'' (Atari 8-bit) The Zimag catalog lists the following games beneath a "Spring '83" heading: ''Outpost'', ''Meltdown'', ''Moving Day'', ''Car Jockey'', ''Tally Ho'', ''Immies and Aggies'', ''

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'', ''Dinograms'', ''Cake Bake'', and ''Evac''. None of these were released.

References

{{Atari 2600 Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game development companies Atari 2600