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An original kids game that was also made
but never released for the Atari 8-bit computers.
An internal memo mentions a 5200 as being finished but
unreleased. It is unknown which version was the
original and which was the port.
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Arabian
Port of the 1983 Atari Coin-op. Arabian
was originally supposed to be programmed by Landon
Dyer, but he passed and decided to do Super Pac-Man
instead. According to Landon someone else was
assigned to do the programming for this game, so it
was in development. It is unknown how far along
the game made it before being cancelled.
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E.T.
Programmed by John Seghers for Atari.
This version of E.T. was to be (thankfully)
completely different than the 2600 version.
Gameplay would have included E.T. running away
from FBI agents in the woods, among other things.
John remembers saving his work for this game on
some development disks, but to date has be unable to
locate them.
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Elevator Action
Programmed by Joe Copson for Atari. Based
on the 1983 Taito Coin-op, this game supposedly nearly
complete before being cancelled. It is unknown
if the game still exists, but it is widely believed
that it was only saved to development disks and not
burned to EPROMs.
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Garfield
Programmed by Judy Bogart with help from Landon
Dyer. This game was an action title based on the
comic strip Garfield. In this game Garfield
would have to pick up plates of lasagna while avoiding
mice that would try to trip him. As Garfield
collected more lasagna it would form a tower that
would slowly sway back and forth. The player
would have to keep the tower from falling over while
moving around the screen.
Coding for this game was done, but it is not
known how far the game had progressed. Landon
Dyer recently commented on the 'lasagna tower' physics
working properly, so the game must have been fairly
far along.
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Highway
Programmed by Bob Polaro
with graphics by Alan Murphy. Also known as
Highway One, this was to a top down driving game similar
to APB. According to Bob Polaro " Only a
few weeks of work went into it".
It was assigned the part number CX-5227.
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Ms. Pac-Man (Puffer Version)
This was a modified version of Ms. Pac-Man that
used the Puffer exercise bike controller. See
the Tumbleweeds
page for more detail on the Puffer. According to
Jim Leiterman (who worked on the Puffer project), the
Puffer was ill-suited for this type of game and this
prototype was never meant to be released.
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Pole Position (Puffer
Version)
This was a modified version of Pole Position
that used the Puffer exercise bike controller. See the
Tumbleweeds
page for more detail on the Puffer. It is
unknown if Atari was seriously considering releasing
this version, or if it was just a demonstration of the
kind of games the Puffer was suited for.
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Scraper Caper
Developed by Big Five Software. Scraper
Caper was to be the second game in the Bounty Bob
series, but was ultimately cancelled and replaced by
Bounty Bob Strikes Back.
In Scraper Caper Bounty Bob would have switched
careers from Mountie to Fire Fighter, and battle Yukon
Yohan in the big city. Two different versions of
Scraper Caper were actually programmed.
According to Bill Houge in the first version
"The game started outside a tall building on
fire. A hysterical woman would flag down Bob and
give him instructions for going up to her apartment to
save something valuable. Bob would salute and
then he'd be under your control. You'd go in the
automatic door at the base of the building and start
exploring." This version was abandoned because
the concept didn't seem to pan out as well as Bill had
hoped.
The second version was far more interesting
sounding. In this version Bounty Bob was hopping
around on three-dimensional framework with angry
fireballs after him (resembling Crystal
Castles). This version actually got much farther
before also being cancelled due to the concept no
working as well as Bill had hoped. Later Bill
admitted that he had set his standards too high and
that both games should have been released.
Sadly it is believed that both versions of
Scraper Caper are lost to the ravages of time although
video of the second version has surfaced.
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Solar Fox
Developed by MicroGraphic Image for CBS
Electronics. Ex-Apollo programmer Van Tran
programmed a version of Solar Fox for the Atari 5200
SuperSystem and 8-bit line of computers. The
game was shown in a 1983 CES press kit and was
scheduled for an October '83 release. It was
supposedly completed and was nearly arcade perfect,
but was never released due to the video game crash and
subsequent departure of CBS from the video game
market.
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