Towering Inferno (video game)
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Towering Inferno is an Atari 2600 game designed by Jeff Corsiglia and programmed by Paul Allen Newell and released by US Games in 1982.[2] The player controls a fireman going through a burning skyscraper to save victims and put out the fires. The game was produced under a licence obtained from 20th Century Fox by Quaker Oats, the parent company of US Games, for the video game rights to the movie of the same name.[3]
Towering Inferno | |
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Developer(s) | US Games |
Publisher(s) | US Games |
Designer(s) | Jeff Corsiglia[1] |
Programmer(s) | Paul Allen Newell[2] |
Platform(s) | Atari 2600 |
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Genre(s) | Action |
Newell also programmed the Vectrex port of Scramble,[1] and he co-designed (with Duncan Muirhead) and programmed the original maze algorithm that is the basis for the game Entombed for the 2600, programmed by Steve Sidley and designed by Tom Sloper.[4]