This is a list of popular coin-op video games based on the 6502 CPU. The selection was primarily drawn from the list of "Golden Age" arcade games on wikipedia, with a few other games from the same era thrown in.
Most of the popular games of that era were based around the Zilog Z80, with some Motorola 6809 and Intel 8080. Atari was certainly the most prolific user of the 6502.
On 14-Oct-2021, a massive collection of original Atari source code was posted to "Historical Source" repositories on github. A list of the included games can be found in this forum posting. Links to the relevant repositories are included in the table below.
| Name | Manufacturer | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asteroids | Atari | 1979 | github |
| Asteroids Deluxe | Atari | 1980 | github |
| Atari Baseball | Atari | 1979 | github |
| Atari Football | Atari | 1978 | github |
| Atari Mini Golf (prototype) | Atari | 1978 | github |
| Battlezone | Atari | 1980 | github |
| Canyon Bomber | Atari | 1977 | github |
| Centipede | Atari | 1981 | github |
| Cops 'N Robbers | Atari | 1976 | github |
| Crystal Castles | Atari | 1983 | github |
| Gravitar | Atari | 1982 | github |
| Lunar Lander | Atari | 1979 | github |
| Millipede | Atari | 1982 | github |
| Missile Command | Atari | 1980 | github |
| Night Driver | Atari | 1976 | github |
| Red Baron | Atari | 1980 | github |
| Space Duel | Atari | 1980 | github |
| Starship 1 | Atari | 1978 | github |
| Super Breakout | Atari | 1978 | github |
| Tempest | Atari | 1981 | github |
| Warlords | Atari | 1980 | github |
Some later games used the 6502 in a minor role, e.g. Paper Boy uses it to manage sound and the coin slots. It was also part of the DECO Cassette System, for games like Burger Time.