Stay Frosty 2 - Atari 2600

Everybody's favorite fabled frosty firefighter is back!

But so are those pesky fireballs and they're hotter than ever! This year they've kidnapped Santa and some of his helpers, so it's up to you to put out the fireballs and rescue your friends from their fiery fate. Your first frosty adventure was just a warm-up - now there are all new levels to conquer and challenges to face! Fortunately, you've found some new magic in that old silk hat of yours.

Can you stay frostier, fight your way to the fireballs' frigid fortress and freeze those fiendish flames?

2014 AtariAge Holiday Greetings Cart

Stay Frosty 2 marks the return of the AtariAge Holiday Greetings Cart! The last AtariAge Holiday Cart was Stella's Stocking, a whopping 64K cartridge containing five separate games (including Stay Frosty, the predecessor to Stay Frosty 2), and a beautiful menu with music you won't believe is coming from an Atari 2600. The initial run of the game was numbered, but the game is now sold in an "Unlimited" form, and the labels were changed to remove the "Holiday Greetings" text and the space for the number.

Gameplay

Extinguish the pesky fireballs, either by throwing snowballs or simply running over them! The larger the fireball, the more snow it takes to put it out. But remember, our hero is only made of snow! He'll melt a little bit whenever he touches something hot, with each snowball thrown or just as time passes. You have to replenish him with the ice blocks scattered around.

Ice blocks also melt as time passes, so you'll need to be quick. To make matters worse, everything melts faster as the day progresses. If your snowman melts past his neck or falls through the floor he loses a life. If he loses all of his lives the game ends. After your game ends, you can choose to continue playing from the last level reached up to two times. Your score and lives will be reset.

There are 32 different layouts in Stay Frosty 2 which repeat for 128 total levels. Each time you complete a set of 32 levels, the weather gets a little hotter and everything melts a little faster. After every 32nd level, you'll rescue one of Santa's helpers. After level 128, you'll rescue Santa himself and win the game!

Gamepad Options

Stay Frosty 2 supports the the use of a gamepad. If a compatible gamepad is connected, the primary button causes Frosty to jump. The secondary button allows you to throw a snowball (when you are able to). Joypads known to be compatible with Stay Frosty 2 include the Amiga CD32 joypad and the Sega MD/Genesis controller. Other gamepads may also work.

Own The Original Stay Frosty!

As mentioned above, the 2007 AtariAge Holiday Greetings Cart, Stella's Stocking, contains five holiday-themed games, including Stay Frosty. If you haven't yet played Stay Frosty, you owe it to yourself to pick up Stella's Stocking and enjoy Stay Frosty as well as the other four games included. Stella's Stocking includes a beautiful label and manual designed by David Exton, who also created the label and manual for Stay Frosty 2, and all the prior AtariAge Holiday Greeting Carts.

Additional Information

Stay Frosty 2 is a Melody-enhanced game that takes full advantage of the DPC+ mode in the Melody. Included with your purchase is the Stay Frosty 2 game cartridge and full-color, six page manual. Stay Frosty 2 is available in NTSC and PAL60 versions. Please select the correct version above for your locale.

Get a Stay Frosty 2 Box!

If you'd like a boxed copy of Stay Frosty 2, please select "Box Upgrade: Yes" at the top of the page before adding Stay Frosty 2 to your cart. Our boxes are professionally printed and include a box insert to hold your Stay Frosty 2 cartridge in place. We want you to play our games, so we have not sealed or shrinkwrapped the boxes in any way, allowing you easy access to the game cartridge and manual.

These boxes are the same size as boxes Atari produced for their games "back in the day". They look great sitting on a shelf with your other boxed homebrew games, or alongside games from the classic Atari 2600 library. We only have a limited number of boxes for each game, and there is no guarantee they will become available again once our supplies are exhausted. Click on the images to the right to see larger photos of the box.