Claim Jumper is a video game written by Gray Chang for Atari 8-bit computers and published by Synapse Software in 1982.[2] It is primarily designed as a two-player competitive game, but includes a separate shoot 'em up mode for either one or two players.[3]
| Claim Jumper | |
|---|---|
 Cover art by Tim Boxell[1] | |
| Publisher(s) | Synapse Software |
| Designer(s) | Gray Chang[2] |
| Platform(s) | Atari 8-bit |
| Release | 1982 |
Gameplay
editClaim Jumper is a game in which the player is a cowboy collecting gold bars.[4]
Development
editGray Chang previously wrote the two-player competitive game Dog Daze for the Atari Program Exchange. After Claim Jumper, he designed two more games for two simultaneous players: Dog Daze Deluxe and Bumpomov's Dogs.
Chang kept a notebook while writing Claim Jumper which contains nearly 200 pages of code, flowcharts, technical details, and graph paper sketches of the game art.[5]
Reception
editAllen Doum reviewed the game for Computer Gaming World, and stated that "The graphics and animation in Claim Jumper 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 Claim Jumper which fills that need so nicely."[4]
References
edit- ^ "Claim Jumper Cover". ataridogdaze.com.
- ^ a b Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
- ^ "Claim Jumper Manual". archive.org. Synapse Software. 1982.
- ^ a b Doum, Allen (Jan–Feb 1983). "The Atari Arena". Computer Gaming World. Vol. 1, no. 8. pp. 34–35.
- ^ Chang, Gray (1982). "Claim Jumper Development Notebook".
External links
edit- Review in Compute!
- Addison Wesley Book of Atari Software 1984
- Review in Creative Computing
- Review in Computer and Video Games
- Review in TeleMatch