Zellers was a chain of grocery stores originating in Canada founded in 1931. They eventually went defunct in 2013. The company is most well known for importing and selling bootleg Atari 2600 games from Taiwan. Usually consisting of games by Atari, Activision, and Imagic.
Overview[]
To Cash-In on the at the time booming market for Atari 2600 games. Zellers imported several bootleg versions of legitimate Atari 2600 from Taiwan and released them in the early-1980s, with some games also having modified graphics. A total of 18 Atari 2600 games were bootlegged such as Laser Gates from Imagic which was renamed to Laser Volley and Keystone Kapers from Activision which was renamed to Busy Police. Around the mid-1980s Atari eventually stopped Zellers from selling more bootleg carts.
List of Games[]
All games are pirates of the originals usually with a new name and art loosely based off the original artwork. Though it seems that the Funvision and Sancho games could potentially be licensed but it's unconfirmed.
- Busy Police (Keystone Kapers by Activision)
- Challenge by Funvision
- Circus (Circus Atari by Atari modified to use joysticks) Also has a version called Seesaw.
- Dragon Treasure (Dragonfire by Imagic)
- Earth Attack (Defender by Atari)
- Farmer Dan (Gopher by US Games)
- Freeway by Activision
- Frontline (Combat by Atari)
- Inca Gold by Funvision
- Laser Volley (Laser Gates by Imagic)
- Ocean City Defender (Atlantis by Imagic)
- Pinball (Video Pinball by Atari)
- Radar (Exocet by Sancho)
- Scuba Diver (Skindiver by Sancho)
- Sea Hawk (Seahawk by Sancho)
- Space Adventure (Flash Gordon by Fox Video Games)
- Time Warp by Funvision
- Turmoil by Fox Video Games
Trivia[]
- Since a catalog for Zellers games doesn't exist, there could potentially be more games that they sold