Alligator People
Alligator People is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox's video game division, programmed by John Russell in 1983. It is based on the 1959 horror and science fiction film The Alligator People, in which an…
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Fox Video Games was the video game label of the 20th Century Fox film studio, active in 1982 and 1983. The four games on this page were never sold: Fox closed its game unit during the 1983 video game crash, and these projects survive only as prototypes. The label’s released cartridges are listed on the 20th Century Fox page.
Alligator People (1983): John Russell’s game based on the 1959 film, dropped after children in play-tests found it too slow and easy.
Planet of the Apes (1983): John Marvin’s escape as Colonel Taylor, for years known under the wrong name.
Meltdown: hunt down quarks in an overheating reactor; it was thought lost until 2004.
The Entity: Mark Klein’s puzzle-action game based on the horror film, with a prototype dated September 1982.
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Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is an unreleased Atari 2600 prototype from 1983, programmed by John Marvin for 20th Century Fox's video game division. You play Colonel George Taylor, the astronaut from the 1968 film, fleeing an army of…
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The Entity
The Entity is an unreleased Atari 2600 game from 20th Century Fox, programmed by Mark Klein and based on the horror film of the same name. Instead of fighting the film's invisible force, you push it: by sliding…
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