the 2600 thrives on simple games like this, not overly ambitious sportsball attempts. The core gameplay is extremely straightforward, but fun enough that it survives to this day in games like slither.io, and some gameplay variants spice it up. There's even a little drawing minigame, which has some novelty even in its primitive state.

The decision for singleplayer to be controlled with the right controller jack is an odd one, but I guess this is before the whole left-to-right shorthand became canonized in video game vocabulary.