What platforms is Barnyard Blaster on?

Barnyard Blaster was released on Atari 7800.

When did Barnyard Blaster release?

Barnyard Blaster was first released on December 31, 1988.

Barnyard Blaster

Dec 31, 1988ShooterAtari 7800

Barnyard Blaster — frequently asked questions

What platforms is Barnyard Blaster on?: Barnyard Blaster was released on Atari 7800.
When did Barnyard Blaster release?: Barnyard Blaster was first released on December 31, 1988.

About Barnyard Blaster

You and Grandpa are down on the farm. There are critters, bottles, and varmints everywhere -- in the barn, in the yard, and in the cornfield. Grandpa has given you an Atari light gun to help protect the farm. The moving targets are a challenge. Can you hit them? If not, try the veggies! They're fun to shoot at. In the barnyard, bottles and cans on the fence provide great practive for warming up the old shootin' iron. But perfect aim alone isn't enough. You'll need speed, too. In the cornfield, birds swoop from the sky and rabbits scamper among the stalks, Owls and other pests appear inside a barn. Each scene can only be reached by hitting enough targest in the scene before. Once you zero in on some fancy shooting scores, Gramps offers you a bonus round by tossing target bottles in the air.

Summary via IGDB.

Barnyard Blaster on Wikipedia

Barnyard Blaster is a light gun shooting video game written by James Zalewski and published by Atari Corporation for the Atari 7800 and Atari 8-bit computers in 1988. It is one of the few games compatible with the Atari XG-1 light gun.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari 7800
Developer: Atari Corporation
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Game modes: Single player, Multiplayer
Themes: Action

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari 7800 · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-10-19

Loose

$18

Complete

$35

Sealed

$38

How often it sells

Loose: about 6 times a year
Complete: about 5 times a year
Sealed: about once a month

Sales frequency from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, as of 2026-10-19.

Price over time

Loose
Complete

A loose copy sold for about $5.38 in Jan 2010, $18.81 five years ago, and $18.49 as of Oct 2026.

Show as table

Month	Loose	Complete
Jan 2010	$5.38	—
Jan 2011	$3.99	—
Jan 2012	$6.75	—
Jan 2013	$4.99	—
Jan 2014	$5.24	$3.25
Jan 2015	$7.00	$7.99
Jan 2016	$6.99	$8.94
Jan 2017	$11.95	$8.99
Jan 2018	$8.99	$11.43
Jan 2019	$10.74	$13.28
Jan 2020	$11.35	$12.13
Jan 2021	$15.79	$17.72
Jan 2022	$18.92	$21
Jan 2023	$19.99	$20
Jan 2024	$16.75	$19.99
Jan 2025	$14.95	$16.39
Jan 2026	$14.84	$30
Oct 2026	$18.49	$35

Monthly price estimates from PriceCharting's completed-sale records, sampled quarterly, through Oct 2026.

Release record

Territory	Label	Catalog #	Rarity
North America Atari	Color	CX7859	Common

Source: Catalog numbers, label types, rarity, controllers and player counts: AtariAge 7800 software database

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1991
Controller: XG-1 light gun (XE Light Gun), XG-1 light gun
Players: 1 - 2
Authenticity: Low

Not in Atari 50 — other compilations and reissues are not tracked hereLow look-alike risk

Atari 7800 prices, all games & how to spot a fake

A light-gun-only cart that is cheap to find and ranked last of the 7800's gun games by one retrospective reviewer.

Barnyard Blaster was written by James Zalewski and published by Atari Corporation for the 7800 and for the Atari 8-bit computers. It is a shooting gallery that needs the XG-1 light gun, and unlike Crossbow and Alien Brigade it has no joystick mode.

A Current Notes reviewer in 1990 found the 7800 cartridge an exact duplicate of the XE version, and questioned whether the light-gun-only design made sense, since the gun was not sold separately in enough places to justify it. A retrospective reviewer at Video Game Critic was harsher and called it the worst of the 7800 light gun games.

How it was made

Written by James Zalewski; published by Atari Corporation for the 7800.

Worth knowing

From the 7800 manual. Two-player games share one light gun.
From the 7800 manual. Up to 40 bullets per screen.
From the 7800 manual. Select toggles the music on or off.

Before you buy

Common, with a modest premium for the box. You need the Atari XG-1 light gun (sold with the XE Game System, never in the game box) and a CRT television, so the cartridge is no use to a joystick-only owner. It carries the Atari color label (CX7859). Compared with the other gun games this is the one to buy last unless you are completing a set.