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The Long-Lost Tarzan Atari Game, Preserved
After 40 years, the Atari 2600 masterpiece Tarzan has been unearthed.
This is not the entirety of the 2600 library, though – major releases such as Pitfall!, Adventure, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, or Smurfs: Rescue in Gargamel’s Castle were built around worlds that extended beyond the screen’s borders, where you didn’t necessarily know what was coming next or how you’d need to approach that challenge. In the dumped build, the game effectively uses the 2600’s color palette to paint the jungle imagery, from the thick treeline to the dusky sky seen in the distance – whether or not she was responsible for these elements is unclear, but they create a lovely backdrop within the hardware’s limitations. In the case of Tarzan, it may have taken 40 years, but today, this herculean effort by Jaquays, Schick, Taterczynski, Will, Day, Marshall and McDaniel Ballweg can be recognized as the would-have-been VCS masterpiece that it is, and an absolutely stellar capstone to JWDA’s 2600 library.
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