Unknown 20th Century Fox Game

How to play Unknown 20th Century Fox Game online

Prototypes are often unfinished, so some controls may do nothing. Try the standard joystick keys:

• Joystick: arrow keys, fire = Space bar
• Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
• Select switch: F11
• Difficulty switches: F4 (Player 1) and F9 (Player 2)

What is known

Very little. We found no published description of this particular prototype under this name, so we can’t tell you what the game was meant to be.

One lead is worth knowing about. For years, collectors knew another mystery prototype as the “Unknown Universal” game, because the only clue to its origin was the word Universal printed on its circuit board, which pointed to 20th Century Fox. Its programmer, Jim Collas, later came forward and identified it as Heart Like a Wheel, a drag-racing game based on the 1983 film. It was made for Fox by Micro Computer Technologies and cancelled when the film did poorly. This prototype may be the same one under an older name, but that has not been confirmed, so treat it as a possibility only.