Arcade / Arcade - Miscellaneous · 1987

Elk Attack

Published by Atari

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Information

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

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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 Stilphen — 10 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."
duder — 13 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.