Meltdown
Atari 2600 · 2007-04-01
Action
Shown at the 1983 Winter CES, and listed for release in April 1983 under what was then a working title. Also mentioned in the April 83 issue of Creative Computing magazine. The game was later discovered at CGE2K4 and released by Digital Press right after the show! According to fellow Videa designers Lee Actor and Roger Hector, the game was completed under the name Atom Smasher. After deciding not to produce it, they sold it to 20th Century Fox, who renamed it Meltdown...who also chose not to release it. When the rights reverted back to Videa, they sold it to Atari, who... (surprise, surprise) …
