How to play Secret Agent online
Secret Agent was made for the Atari paddle controller. The emulator switches to paddle mode automatically for paddle games.
- Move your agent: left and right arrow keys
- Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
- Choose one or two players: F11 (the console’s Select switch)
- Switch between paddle and joystick mode: Alt + L
Gameplay
Your agent moves left and right with a board held over his head. Useful things rain down: cases of money, money bags and capsules marked “US”. Catch them. Mixed in with them are bugs, grenades and guns, which you have to avoid. After you have collected enough, a tone sounds and the second part of the round begins: you must line your agent up with the boats on the water below to make the hand-off and earn bonus points. The items keep falling during the hand-off, so you still have to dodge. In a two-player game the players take turns.
History
Data Age was founded in 1982 and released eight games before filing for bankruptcy in May 1983. Secret Agent had already been announced, and it is believed to be the last Data Age game that was completed. The game stayed unpublished until 2001, when Atari2600.com made 50 cartridges with Data Age-style labels and sold them at the Classic Gaming Expo that year.
Similar games to play next
- Kaboom! – Activision’s paddle game about catching falling bombs, the clear model for Secret Agent
- Journey Escape – Data Age’s best-known release
- Bugs – one of Data Age’s first games from 1982
- Frankenstein’s Monster – one of Data Age’s last released games