Atari 2600 - Atari - 1987

Elk Attack

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Genre: Arcade - Miscellaneous
Year: 1987
Controls: Joystick
Publisher: Atari
Players: 1 / 2 (alt.)
Country
Programmer(s): Hahn, Mark R.
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Format: NTSC
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Elk Attack is a port of the obscure Taito arcade game Electric Yo-Yo! Programmer Mark Hahn named the game Elk Attack as a joke, and probably would have changed the name had it been published. The game was left in its current state.

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COMMENTS (2)

Scott Stilphen10 Oct 2018
This wasn't an official Atari title. The programmer, Mark Hahn, did it in his spare time, and offered it to Atari, but they declined it. From Hahn: From the programmer: "The history of Elk Attack is not very interesting. In the spring of 1987, finding myself unemployed, I wrote a VCS game based very loosely on Yo-Yo. Those things that were easy to do I did; those that were hard, I changed or dropped. I named my cart Elk Attack as a joke and sent the cart to Atari and Epyx for them to evaluate. Neither were interested, so I stuffed my test EPROMS in a drawer and forgot them until I ran across the STELLA emulator. Brad Mott had a wonderful emulator but no binaries to distribute with it. I gave him permission to include Elk Attack with distributions of STELLA."
duder13 Dec 2017
Wow, I can't believe this was made. 1 of Atari's best game they made for the 2600. Really colorful and catchy for the time this was made. Sadly, it's only a prototype.