Part of Atari's marketing for the VCS2600 was the indication of the game variants on the packaging: "Space Invaders" was not simply "Space Invaders", but "Space Invaders: 112 Video Games". The selection of the game variants was tedious, because for game variant 112, for example, the switch button had to be pressed 112 times. A menu was omitted in order to save memory and thus costs. Today memory is cheap and AtariAge user Omegamatrix patched several VCS classics and gave them a title and menu screen: Super Breakout, Video Olympics and Space Invaders. The menus give names to the game variants, and individual variants are deselected if they cannot be played with the current configuration.
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