Will Nicholes is a homebrew programmer whose first Atari 2600 game, Duck Attack!, was written in 2009 and released on cartridge through AtariAge at the 2010 Classic Gaming Expo. It is his tribute to Warren Robinett’s Adventure: a small robot explores rooms full of fire-breathing mutant ducks to collect radioactive eggs. It fits in 32K and draws its oversized characters with a three-line kernel.
Go egg hunting below, right in your browser.
Duck Attack! is a homebrew Atari 2600 game by Will Nicholes, written in 2009 and released on cartridge through AtariAge at the 2010 Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas. It is his tribute to Warren Robinett’s Adventure: instead of a knight fleeing dragons, you steer a small robot through a maze of rooms full of giant, fire-breathing mutant ducks, collecting radioactive eggs. You can play it here in your browser.