Atari Climber is a platform developed by COMPUTE! Publications, Inc., released 7 June 2004 on Atari 2600.
What Atari Climber is
Atari Climber is a platform game developed by COMPUTE! Publications, Inc. and released in 2004. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Climber 5 is a port of an Atari 8-bit computer game that originally appeared in COMPUTE! magazine back in 1987. In Climber you play the role of a baseball player. The baseball has been hit to the upper rafters of a building under construction. Your job is to climb the ladders and retrieve the ball. Of course, there are obstacles along the way that you need to avoid or you lose a life and must start over at the bottom right corner. Once you successfully retrieve the ball, the level changes and becomes more difficult. When the game was released in Atari Flashback 2, it was retitled to Atari Climber.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Atari Climber launched on 7 June 2004, within three weeks of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
Released around the same time: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Thief: Deadly Shadows, The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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