Developer: Dan Oliver

Dan Oliver programmed Telepathy at Atari in 1983 to show off the MindLink, a headband controller that picked up small movements of the forehead muscles. The MindLink did not work well in testing and was cancelled, and the games written for it were dropped too. Telepathy is known only from a surviving prototype, a string of seven short action screens set in a mine.
The prototype also accepts a normal joystick, so you can play it in your browser below.

Telepathy

Telepathy is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype programmed by Dan Oliver at Atari in 1983. It was written to show off the MindLink, a headband controller that Atari never released. The cartridge is a string of seven short…

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