The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1983 Atari 2600 game based on the 1974 horror film. It was developed by VSS, Inc., designed by Ed Salvo, and published by Wizard Video Games, a home video label that also…
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VSS (Video Software Specialists) was a developer founded by Ed Salvo with programmers who had worked at Games by Apollo. It made games for several publishers, and the site has five:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1983, Wizard Video): you play the film’s villain, a theme that kept it off many shop shelves.
Halloween (1983, Wizard Video): a babysitter leads children to safety from a masked intruder.
Mountain King (1983, CBS Electronics): Salvo’s conversion of the computer game, with extra RAM in the cartridge.
Quest for Quintana Roo (Sunrise): a temple treasure hunt that demands planning.
Glacier Patrol (Telegames, 1988): melt alien ice blocks at the North Pole.
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Quest for Quintana Roo
Quest for Quintana Roo is a treasure-hunting adventure for the Atari 2600, developed by VSS and published by Sunrise Software in the early 1980s. You play Yucatan Sam, an explorer searching an ancient temple in Mexico's Quintana Roo…
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Mountain King
Mountain King is a platform game for the Atari 2600, where the player assumes the role of an explorer in search of a diamond mine and the temple of an ancient civilization. The objective is to discover and…
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Glacier Patrol
Glacier Patrol is a shooting game for the Atari 2600 set at the North Pole. Sunrise Software developed it but never released it, and Telegames finally put it out in 1988. Alien ice blocks float down on parachutes,…
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