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Quantum (video game)

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To enter initials for a high score, the player uses the trackball to circle letters in the same fashion used during gameplay. If the player achieves the highest score on the table, the initials screen is preceded by another on which adept players can use the trackball to draw their initials.
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You must avoid contact with any of the particles (except electrons, they are safe) as well as active (red) particle bonds. Otherwise, the scene collapses and destroys your probe. Besides the nuclei, other deadly particles may appear from time to time.
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to encircle atomic "particles" for points, without touching various other particles. Once the particles are surrounded by the probe's tail they are destroyed.
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and released in November 1982. It was designed by Betty Ryan (
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Developer(s)
General Computer Corporation
Publisher(s)
Atari, Inc.
Designer(s)
Betty Ryan
Composer(s)
Platform(s)
Arcade
Genre(s)
Action
Arcade system
Atari Vector
vector
General Computer Corporation
Atari, Inc.
née
trackball
trackball

Atari 8-bit
ANALOG Computing
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Windows
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S
Atari SA

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