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Atari 2600 - Atari - 1983

Zorfon Patrol

Zorfon Patrol — screenshot 1
Genre
Shoot'em Up! - Horizontal Scrolling
Year
1983
Controls
Joystick
Publisher
Atari
Players
1 / 2 (alt.) / Demo
Country
USA
Programmer(s)
Ackerman, Mark S. / Alito, Noelie
Medium
Cartridge
Format
NTSC
Rarity
Holy Grail
Dump
Missing dump(s)
Serial
CX2692

OTHER VERSIONS WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE (4)

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

According to programmer Noelie Alito: 'Zorfon Patrol was essentially a bootleg copy for a young relative in Potomac, but I didn’t think it was a risk of general piracy due to the relative difficulty of making the carts (as opposed to tape-based games). I’m not sure if that version of Moon Patrol used an anti-piracy trick, which involved the code attempting to write over itself, effectively a NOP on the PROM version. The cartridges were relatively hard to pirate compared to other contemporary formats of software, so the risk of personal bootlegs was minimal. The cartridges were, in effect, their own dongles.'
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Cartridge 1