Tempest

A version of this game with some added features like a title screen was reviewed in Ultimate Gamer magazine, but it's unknown what happened to that prototype. Carla Meninsky has generally been identified as the programmer, but some other programmers seem to recall that someone else worked on Tempest. Meninsky herself shed some light on this when she mentioned that the prototype we have isn't her version at all. More digging shows that the current prototype (dated 1-5-84) was made long after Meninsky had left Atari. So it appears that Atari decided to assign another programmer to make a new version of Tempest after Meninsky left rather than use her existing code. Unfortunately, Meninsky's original version remains lost and the identity of the programmer behind this version remains a mystery.