Tax Avoiders
You are John Q and you want to be rich. In this game, you start out on the income screen where you try to collect the money (dollar signs) while avoiding the governmental red tape (look like red snakes). You…
1 February 1982
Tax Avoiders is a video game, released 1 February 1982 on Atari 2600.
What Tax Avoiders is
Tax Avoiders was released in 1982. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are John Q and you want to be rich. In this game, you start out on the income screen where you try to collect the money (dollar signs) while avoiding the governmental red tape (look like red snakes). You have only one year to get your money and invest it. Each second, a day goes by. My, how time flies. Once a season, you are sent to the investment/tax shelter screen, where you must collect an icon representing an investment and then grab your portfolio (briefcase). Investments have a 50/50 chance of making or losing money. Also on this screen is a character whose color changes. What color he is determines who he is: Black=Eggie, the IRS agent. If he catches you, he will audit you. In…
How it plays
Its themes are action.
What it launched against
Tax Avoiders launched on 1 February 1982, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man and Dig Dug.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug.
Quick answers
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When did Tax Avoiders come out?
Tax Avoiders was released on 1 February 1982 for Atari 2600.
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