Atari 2600
1982
I don’t have any idea how a 2600 game this technically advanced can exist. I’ve played enough Atari games recently to know that you can’t have continuous scrolling on this system, and yet River Raid is a top-down vertical shooter in the vein of 1942 or Ikaruga. It is like somebody
stuck an N.E.S. game into an Atari cartridge. Black magic may have been involved.
This technical voodoo nearly hides the fact that this game's protagonist is clearly a bad guy. You play a jet plane reigning fiery death upon planes, ships, helicopters and bridges. As long as you fly true and continually steal fuel, you can continue bomb these poor bastards on your sick reign of terror. All the targets in this game are unarmed, and presumably civilians. River Raid is the most cruelly immoral mass market game this side of Manhunt.
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