Walkthrough for a Made-Up Game

The little man must bounce.

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Illustration by Eóin Burke
Illustration by Eóin Burke

Rom Title: Fun With Bouncing

Real Title: Uncertain. Only twelve copies of the game existed long enough for a full play-through in the original format, and none of those cartridges, designed to run on a standard Atari 2600 system, had any recognizable language printed on them. Instead, the gouges and scratches suggested obscenities so primal they could only be implied. Gaming critic Chris Dahlen has argued that even the assumption that the cartridges were actually intended for use on the Atari is a faulty one, suggesting instead that dumb luck and sheer geek stubbornness are the only reason anyone would've thought to stick one in the machine and press the On switch.