Wizard of Wor
Wizard of Wor is the Atari 2600 version of Midway's 1981 arcade maze shooter. CBS Electronics published it in December 1982, and the conversion was made by Roklan. You lead a squad of Worriors through a series of…
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Roklan was a contract developer of the early 1980s that wrote games for larger companies instead of publishing under its own name, so its work is easy to miss. On the Atari 2600 it converted two Midway arcade games for CBS Electronics, both released in December 1982.
Wizard of Wor: one or two Worriors hunt monsters, some of them invisible, through dungeon mazes until the Wizard appears. AtariAge credits the programming to Joe Hellesen and Joe Wagner.
Gorf: several short missions in one game, ending at the Gorfian Flag Ship. Alex Leavens programmed it.
The site also lists Roklan for two Parker Brothers versions of Konami games, Super Cobra and Gyruss. AtariProtos and AtariMania say Roklan worked on both, but accounts of its role in the released cartridges differ, and our Gyruss page credits Joe Gaucher. Choose a game below and play it in your browser.
Super Cobra
Super Cobra is Parker Brothers' 1983 Atari 2600 version of Konami's 1981 arcade game. You fly a helicopter through eleven levels of hostile terrain, firing missiles and bombs at ground guns, rockets, fireballs and mines while keeping an…
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