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Atari asks gamers for help finding developer of mysterious 2600 game

Rachel Kaser@rachelkaser
February 8, 2022 7:09 AM

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[Atari-Aquaventure]
Image Credit: Atari XP

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Atari today announced that it is calling upon fans for help finding
the developer of a legendary unreleased prototype, Aquaventure. No
programmer has thus far ever (officially) come forward to claim this
Atari 2600 game, which was discovered at a flea market in the '90s.

Atari XP, a division within the company that publishes physical
copies of rare and unreleased games, is opening the quest to gamers.
It asks fans to direct any leads it may have to the company via
Facebook message. It doesn't give them much to go on, but determined
gamers are a formidable force.

According to a blog post written by AtariProtos' Matt Reichert,
"Until the mid 1980s, most games were only credited to the company
that published them. In a fast growing market, studios wanted to make
it more difficult for competitors to poach talented programmers by
keeping their identities hidden. This practice is why we don't know
exactly who conceived and programmed Aquaventure, along with many
other titles from the early '80s."

So how exactly did a prototype of Aquaventure appear in a flea
market? That's what Atari is hoping fans will help find out. Atari XP
is offering a proper physical copy of Aquaventure to pre-order on the
Atari XP site, which will ship sometime early this year.

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