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Rob Zdybel mentioned producing this demo in response to being asked to do a new football game for the 2600 (which would eventually become RS Football).  According to Rob the purpose of this demo was to show marketing the limits of what the 2600 could do (as he put it "literally pegging the machine"). 

The demo shows eleven men on each side of the screen running in place.  There are also two lines representing yardage markers, and that's about the extend of the demo.  There is no other functionality, it was simply made to show what the 2600 could (and couldn't) do.  If you look at the two pictures below, you can see that the multi-colored players had to replaced by solid colors in order to make the game feasible.

Since the prototype was discovered in the early 2000's, it was assumed that Tod Frye programmed this demo as he mentions creating something called "Red vs Blue" in the Stella at 20 documentary.  However in a recent interview Rob mentioned that programmed it himself and never mentions the demo being called Red vs Blue, so it's possible that different football demo exists somewhere or Tod had his facts wrong.  Either way, this early demo paved the way for RS Football.

Impressive for a demo	The left two players have black dots that appear on their helmets for a few frames
They just run in place forever...	Here's the final version for comparison

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