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Atari 2600 - Activision - 1983

Keystone Kapers II

Keystone Kapers II — screenshot 11 / 9
Genre
Arcade - Miscellaneous
Year
1983
Controls
Joystick
Publisher
Activision
Players
1
Country
USA
Programmer(s)
Kitchen, Dan
Medium
Cartridge
Format
NTSC
Rarity
Dump
Missing dump(s)
Serial

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

Also known as Keystone Kannonball or Keystone Canonball.
According to programmer Dan Kitchen: 'I had also done a sequel to Keystone Kapers, which was the Keystone cop on a train.
And that was actually a neat thing because I was able to pull off some interesting software kernels where I had eight rotating wheels on the bottom of a train where you could normally only have two or six. It was a very cute game. From screen to screen, from boxcar to boxcar fighting and trying to defeat the character from Keystone Kapers, who was the runaway criminal. That was a very huge game as it had non-symmetrical play and had a really nice, large engine at the front of the game and a very large caboose at the bottom of the game.'
And: 'The original concept started as a generic train game. I’m a model railroader and wanted to make a side view game with different railroad cars. At the time my brother Garry had released Keystone Kapers and we thought using Keystone Kelly would be a cool addition to the game. The initial intent was to have Harry Hooligan transition from a petty department store thief to a full-fledged train bandit. However, before I had a chance to continue work on the game, the 2600 market experienced its downfall and I moved onto other games.'

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Keystone Kapers II
Keystone Kapers II