Dan Kitchen helped found Absolute Entertainment in 1986 with his brother Garry Kitchen, a former Activision designer, and other colleagues. He designed Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator, one of Absolute’s last Atari cartridges, released around 1989. You launch an F-14 from a carrier, fight enemy jets with guns and missiles and then land back on the deck. Earlier, he converted David Crane’s Ghostbusters to the 2600 for Activision.
The site has two Tomcat pages. The second one runs a different, unidentified ROM file. Play either in your browser below.
Tomcat: The F-14 Fighter Simulator is a late Atari 2600 flight game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Absolute Entertainment. You fly an F-14 from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise: launch from the catapult, hunt enemy fighters…
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