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Featured in this month’s edition of the NVM Newsletter is something very special!
Programmer Dan Kitchen recently unearthed and donated his source code for his long-lost Activision 2600 prototype, The Levee Game (1983) to the National Videogame Museum!
Also known as “The Dam Game”, the object is to guide Keystone Kelly around various platforms while repairing cracks in the dam. Players can also maneuver barrels under the leaks to collect the water to keep the flood at bay. Players need to keep the rising water at the bottom of the screen in check, because if it reaches the top, it's game over!
Unreleased Activision games for the Atari 2600 are few and far between these days, but as many unreleased and prototype Atari 2600 games have found new life in recent years, we can only hope that The Levee Game can one day be completed and released as well!