Towering Inferno (video game)
Towering Inferno is an Atari 2600 game designed by Jeff Corsiglia and programmed by Paul Allen Newell and released by US Games in 1982. 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.
| Towering Inferno | |
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| Developer(s) | US Games |
| Publisher(s) | US Games |
| Designer(s) | Jeff Corsiglia |
| Programmer(s) | Paul Allen Newell |
| Platform(s) | Atari 2600 |
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| Genre(s) | Action |
Newell also programmed the Vectrex port of Scramble, 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.
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