The Stacks

The Stacks

Console: Atari 2600
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Other Ocean Interactive
Publisher(s): Parzavision Games
Release Date: 2012-08-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: T - Teen
Type: Adventure
The Stacks screenshot

Descending the networks of metal girders had always reminded me of old platform videogames like Donkey Kong or BurgerTime. I'd seized upon this idea a few years earlier when I coded my first Atari 2600 game (a gunter rite of passage, like a Jedi building his first lightsaber). It was a Pitfall rip-off called The Stacks where you had to navigate through a vertical maze of trailers, collecting junk computers, snagging food voucher power-ups, and avoiding meth addicts and pedophiles on your way to school. My game was a lot more fun than the real thing.