The Stacks
An Atari 2600 game commissioned by Ernest Cline to promote the novel Ready Player One. Welcome to THE STACKS! Your name is Wade Watts and you live in the Stacks, a sprawling vertical trailer park filled with…
The Stacks is an adventure, released 1 September 2012 on Atari 2600 and iOS.
What The Stacks is
The Stacks was released in 2012. It is available on Atari 2600 and iOS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
An Atari 2600 game commissioned by Ernest Cline to promote the novel Ready Player One. Welcome to THE STACKS! Your name is Wade Watts and you live in the Stacks, a sprawling vertical trailer park filled with dangerous enemies and obstacles. Your evil Aunt Alice has broken your OASIS console and scattered the pieces around the Stacks. You must find all six pieces and assemble them in your Hideout so that you can log in to the OASIS. Your quest won't be easy. It will take quick thinking and fast reflexes if you hope to escape the Stacks alive!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Stacks launched on 1 September 2012, within three weeks of Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2 and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Released around the same time: Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Borderlands 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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