Mystery Atari 5200 Game

Posted on March 16th, 2004 by Frank Cifaldi

An unreleased and previously unknown game for the Atari 5200 will be unveiled at this year’s Philly Classic, and one lucky person may win an exclusive reproduction cart!

The game, unearthed by Matt Reichert, will remain unnamed until its unveiling this Friday at the AtariAge booth. In the interim, AtariAge is holding a contest to award the first person to correctly guess the title of the game a one-of-a-kind cartridge. The clues are as follows:

  • It’s a “fast paced action game,” according to AtariAge Content Editor Albert Yarusso, that “demonstrates the power of the 5200 and formed the basis of an arcade game of the same name.”

  • According to Reichert, the game “isn’t on ANY list of possible games I’ve seen and I don’t think anyone other than the programmers knew it was being programmed.”
  • Also according to Reichert, the game is NOT an arcade conversion.
  • The game does NOT exist for any Atari computer system.

The contest is open only to existing members of the AtariAge Forums. I’m going for Mad Planets myself. Check out the contest thread here.


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