I'm just as surprised and baffled by this as you are. It was recently discovered that Wizard Video, makers of the infamous Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre games for the 2600 had actually made a prototype based on the also-infamous redneck rapist movie Deliverance. At first, this was just considered a hoax, but a few hours ago, a programmer found a prototype of the game in his basement and posted the ROM online for all to view. So, I've taken the liberty of examining it for all to view here, given it's just to awesome to miss. This is an even better adaptation than Parker Brothers' smashing Breakfast at Tiffany's game!
The game immediately presents a pretty decent title screen when you start up, showing a banjo in front of a river background.
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After pressing the fire button, you're immediately taken to the first screen, where you control Burt Reynolds as he floats down the Cahulawassee river.
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This screen seems incomplete, since there's not much to do or any obstacles to avoid, but as soon as you hit fire again, the screen immediately changes. The fire trick was likely left in as a testing function. The next screen is the iconic "Dueling Banjos" scene.
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The goal here is to outplay your opponent by moving the joystick to play more notes than him. It's pretty fun, and may be the very first rhythm game ever. Once you hit 401 notes, you're taken to the "final boss" of the game. In this screen you play as Jon Voight, who must kill the last hillbilly with his bow. It's harder than it sounds, due to the hillbilly moving fast, but if you win, you get one of the most violent Atari screens ever.
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In the movie, this is a much more morally ambiguous scene, due to Voight's character accidentally shooting an innocent, but the programmer said they had trouble programming emotional tension functions onto the cartridge, so it was made strictly black and white (morality, that is.) After this screen, the game loops and gets even harder.
Despite the fact that it's an extremely short game, it would have single-handedly stopped the Game Crash of 1983 from happening. The game proves that video games are art, that there is a god, and that true love exists. Hell, it's like Spec Ops: The Line. You could watch the movie it's directly inspired by, but in comparison, the movie is a pile of shit that little to no effort was spent on. Obviously this was rendered by superior beings use plebeians would never understand. It is a true testament to the creation of mankind, and mankind's gullibility on April Fool's Day.
The game immediately presents a pretty decent title screen when you start up, showing a banjo in front of a river background.
After pressing the fire button, you're immediately taken to the first screen, where you control Burt Reynolds as he floats down the Cahulawassee river.
This screen seems incomplete, since there's not much to do or any obstacles to avoid, but as soon as you hit fire again, the screen immediately changes. The fire trick was likely left in as a testing function. The next screen is the iconic "Dueling Banjos" scene.
The goal here is to outplay your opponent by moving the joystick to play more notes than him. It's pretty fun, and may be the very first rhythm game ever. Once you hit 401 notes, you're taken to the "final boss" of the game. In this screen you play as Jon Voight, who must kill the last hillbilly with his bow. It's harder than it sounds, due to the hillbilly moving fast, but if you win, you get one of the most violent Atari screens ever.
In the movie, this is a much more morally ambiguous scene, due to Voight's character accidentally shooting an innocent, but the programmer said they had trouble programming emotional tension functions onto the cartridge, so it was made strictly black and white (morality, that is.) After this screen, the game loops and gets even harder.
Despite the fact that it's an extremely short game, it would have single-handedly stopped the Game Crash of 1983 from happening. The game proves that video games are art, that there is a god, and that true love exists. Hell, it's like Spec Ops: The Line. You could watch the movie it's directly inspired by, but in comparison, the movie is a pile of shit that little to no effort was spent on. Obviously this was rendered by superior beings use plebeians would never understand. It is a true testament to the creation of mankind, and mankind's gullibility on April Fool's Day.