Developer: Steve Woita

Steve Woita programmed games at Atari in the early 1980s. The site has four of them:

Quadrun (1983): you destroy captors and rescue escaping runts in an arena.
Taz (1983): the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil spins between tables, eating food and avoiding dynamite.
Asterix (1983): Taz with new graphics, sold mainly in Europe with the Gaulish comic heroes.
Garfield (1984): an unfinished platform game with graphics by Mimi Nyden, cancelled after Atari’s consumer division was sold to Jack Tramiel.

Woita has said Garfield still needed two or three months of work, and that he was let go after asking to finish it. The prototype came out in 1999. Pick a game below and play it in your browser.

Taz

Taz is a 1983 Atari 2600 game starring the Tasmanian Devil from the Looney Tunes cartoons. It was programmed by Steve Woita and published by Atari. Taz spins across the screen as a small tornado and tries to…

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Asterix

Asterix is a 1983 Atari 2600 game starring the Gaulish hero of the French comic series. It is Steve Woita's Taz with new graphics: Atari swapped the Tasmanian Devil for Asterix and Obelix and sold the game mainly…

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Quadrun

Quadrun is a video game for the Atari 2600, where the objective is to destroy enemies, known as “captors,” and rescue friendly characters, called “runts,” who are trying to escape from the arena’s central building. The player character…

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Garfield

Garfield is an unfinished Atari 2600 platform game starring Jim Davis's lazy, lasagne-loving comic strip cat. It was programmed at Atari in 1984 by Steve Woita, with graphics by Mimi Nyden, but it was cancelled and never sold.…

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