Enduro

Enduro is a car racing game developed and published by mh:crappygames:Activision for the Atari 2600 in 1983.

Gameplay
Moving the joystick left and right makes your car steer respectively left and right. Pressing the red button will make your car accelerate. Your goal is to surpass all the 200 adversary racing cars in one day (fictional time). The number of cars is displayed by a counter. Every time you surpass the needed amount of racing cars, the counter will reset, and you will need to surpass a number of racing cars increased by one hundred. So, if you beat the game once, you will then have to surpass 300 racing cars and so on.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) It is historically important, being one of the first racing games ever released.
 * 2) The sound is great. The motor of your car does a cool satisfying roar whenever you accelerate, the sound effect that warns you that you are running out of time get your attention but is not annoying and the jingle that plays when you surpass all the adversary vehicles is nice.
 * 3) Tight and responsive controls.
 * 4) Amazing graphics and animations. You can see the wheels of your car realistically spinning.
 * 5) Different types of terrain, grass and snow, that change flawlessly during the same course without slowing the game down in any way.
 * 6) Different times of day as well are implemented in the game. You will find yourself driving in broad daylight, at dusk, at night and dawn, all well rendered. Special mention goes to the sky colored in a different way at the horizon at dusk and dawn.
 * 7) The developers put great attention to the details:
 * 8) *When night falls, only part of the other cars will be shown to simulate the reduced visibility due to the lack of light.
 * 9) *When the weather becomes foggy, you can't see anything on the upper part of the screen.
 * 10) *When you drive on snow, the roar of the car's engine will be less loud, the wheels of your car will spin a bit slower, and the controls will be slightly unresponsive.
 * 11) *When you finish a race, the counter will be briefly replaced by waving flags.

Reception
Enduro is one of the most appreciated games released for the Atari 2600 and is considered by many a classic. Its rating on GameFaqs is 3.77/5.00 and the Video Game Critic gave him a A- rating. MetalJesusRocks included it in his video "Ten Atari 2600 That Don't Suck".