Developer: Mike Lorenzen

Mike Lorenzen programmed for both Atari and Activision. At Atari he wrote Circus Atari in 1980, a paddle game where two clowns bounce off a seesaw to pop balloons. He turned the comb of black lines seen on many 2600 screens into blocks the clowns jump out of. At Activision he designed Oink!, a 1983 Three Little Pigs game that won the Arkie Award for Most Humorous Video Game.
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Oink!

Oink! is a 1983 Activision game designed by Mike Lorenzen and based on the fairy tale of the Three Little Pigs. The wolf, here called Bigelow B. Wolf, blows holes in the wall of a pig's house, and…

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Circus Atari

Circus Atari is a 1980 paddle game from Atari, programmed by Mike Lorenzen. You slide a seesaw along the bottom of the screen so that two acrobatic clowns can take turns flying up to pop rows of balloons.…

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