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are very good but, while there are sound cues for most game actions, the sounds are not very imaginative. There aren't many interactively competitive two player arcade-style games, so it is nice to see a company like Synapse release a game like
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which contains nearly 200 pages of code, flowcharts, technical details, and graph paper sketches of the game art.
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in 1982. It is primarily designed as a two-player competitive game, but includes a separate
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is a game in which the player is a cowboy collecting gold bars.
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Gray Chang previously wrote the two-player competitive game
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Index


Publisher(s)
Synapse Software
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
Atari 8-bit
Atari 8-bit computers
Synapse Software
shoot 'em up
Atari Program Exchange

Computer Gaming World
"Claim Jumper Cover"


"The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers"
"Claim Jumper Manual"


"Claim Jumper Development Notebook"
Review
Compute!
Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984
Review
Creative Computing
Review
Computer and Video Games
Review
Categories
1982 video games

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