Going-Up??

Name:	Going-Up??
Company:	Starpath
Model #:	N/A
Programmer:	Unknown
Year:	1983
Released?	No
Notes:	Going-Up?? was not mentioned in any Starpath catalog

Going-Up?? (note the dash and two question marks), is a previously unknown game by Starpath.  The first prototype was discovered 2004 in the possession of former Atari employee Bob Brown.  A second prototype was discovered in 2023 was determined to contain the exact same code as the 2004 prototype.  Both prototypes contain only a basic movement demo with a snazzy looking background.

As this prototype is very incomplete, we can only begin to guess at what the gameplay may have been like.  You control a little green alien whom you can move around the screen, and that's about it.  There doesn't appear to be any collision detection with the stair or platforms as you can walk wherever you feel like on the screen.  It is surmised that in the final game you would need to walk up the stairs and jump on the various platforms.  The fact that all the stairs and platforms are different colors may indicate something (like a simple color matching game), but without any further gameplay implemented we have no way of knowing for sure.

Going-Up?? was never mentioned in any Starpath catalog, so it may have been an in-house pet project of one of the programmers.  The graphics are top notch, and had the game been completed it would have fit in nicely with Starpath's other 2600 offerings.  Hopefully another more complete copy of Going-Up?? will surface someday, but for now we are left to wonder what could have been.

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