Developer: Dennis Debro

Dennis Debro is a homebrew programmer who ported Climber 5 to the Atari 2600. The original was a type-in game by James Rogers, printed in COMPUTE! magazine in August 1987, in which a ballboy climbs a building site to fetch a home-run ball. Debro’s version came out on cartridge from XYPE in 2003–2004, with a label chosen in an AtariAge contest. The site has the NTSC version.
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Climber 5 (NTSC)

Climber 5 is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Dennis Debro, published on cartridge by XYPE. It is a port of a type-in game from the August 1987 issue of COMPUTE! magazine, where you play a baseball team's…

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