Developer: Carla Meninsky

Carla Meninsky was one of very few women programming Atari 2600 games at Atari in its early years. She later became an intellectual property lawyer. The site has three of her games.
Dodge ‘Em (1980) is a driving maze in which you collect dots while a computer car tries to hit you head-on. Warlords (1981) is a castle-smashing paddle game for up to four players, unusual because it started as a 2600 project and was then turned into an arcade game. Star Raiders (1982) is her conversion of Doug Neubauer’s space combat game for the Atari 8-bit computers, sold with the Video Touch Pad, which no other game used. She also worked on Indy 500.
All three are below, and you can play them in your browser.

Dodge ‘Em

Dodge 'Em is a 1980 driving maze game for the Atari 2600, programmed by Carla Meninsky and published by Atari. Sears sold it under the name Dodger Cars. You drive round a four-lane track collecting dots while a…

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Warlords

Warlords is a castle-smashing paddle game for up to four players, programmed by Carla Meninsky and released by Atari in 1981, with a Sears edition as well. Each player guards a castle in one corner of the screen…

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Star Raiders

Star Raiders is the 1982 Atari 2600 version of Doug Neubauer's 1979 space combat game for the Atari 8-bit computers. The 2600 conversion was programmed by Carla Meninsky and published by Atari, with a Sears edition as well.…

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