Dukes of Hazzard is not really a prototype. The game was actually burned onto regular ROM chips that were just about to be put into carts and shipped when Atari abruptly decided to cancel the game. According to the programmer Mark Hahn the game was still being worked on, so it is a mystery as … Read more
Unreleased prototype game
According to AtariMania, Planned as a pack-in cassette title for Amiga’s never released Power Module peripheral and described as ‘the first machine-interactive video game’, offering head-to-head play, with one player the submarine commander and the other the destroyer captain.
Licensed by Namco DIG DUG original Atari 2600 manual DIG DUG GAME OBJECTIVE You are Dig Dug, the underground miner. With your jet-powered shovel, you create intricate, subterranean mazes. Ever on the watch for vegetable prizes, you must also look out for the fierce Fygar(tm) and mean Pooka(tm) that lurk underground. Their touch kills| Worse, … Read more
Zimag’s NTSC release of Bit Corporation’s Dancing Plate
Dolphin is a side-scrolling video game for the Atari 2600 and released by Activision in 1983. The player controls a dolphin attempting to flee from a giant squid. It must avoid colliding with packs of seahorses while navigating both forward- and backward-moving currents (indicated by arrows pointed with or against the dolphin’s direction, respectively) which … Read more
Only released in Brazil