Developer: John Mracek

John Mracek was a programmer at General Computer Corporation (GCC), the company that made several arcade conversions for Atari. With Mike Feinstein he programmed the 2600 version of Phoenix, released in early 1983. The pair had to cut more than a third of their code to fit the game onto an 8 KB cartridge, dropping the music and star field, yet kept the small birds, the giant birds and the mothership. The cartridge won an Arkie Award in 1984.
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