Journey Escape
Illustration — Journey Escape on the Atari 2600 Journey Escape is a video game developed and manufactured by Data Age for the Atari 2600 console, and released in 1982. It stars the rock band Journey, one of the world's most popular acts at the time, and is based on their album Escape.
Journey Escape
- Date
- 1982
- Genre
- action game
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Illustration — Journey Escape on the Atari 2600 Journey Escape is a video game developed and manufactured by Data Age for the Atari 2600 console, and released in 1982. It stars the rock band Journey, one of the world's most popular acts at the time, and is based on their album Escape.
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• Title — Journey Escape • Developer — Data Age • Publisher — Data Age • Designer — J. Ray Dettling • Genre — Action • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Atari 2600
Plot
Plot
From the game's manual: • You're on the road with Journey, one of the world's hottest rock groups. A spectacular performance has just ended. Now it's up to you to guide each Journey Band Member past hordes of Love-Crazed Groupies, Sneaky Photographers, and Shifty-Eyed Promoters to the safety of the Journey Escape Vehicle in time to make the next concert. Your mighty manager and loyal roadies are there to help, but the escape is up to you!
Gameplay
Gameplay
The player must lead the band members to their "Scarab Escape Vehicle" (as featured on the cover) and protect the concert cash from "love-crazed" groupies, sneaky photographers, stage barriers and "shifty-eyed" promoters. Assisting the player are roadies, which provide short periods of immunity to obstacles, and The Manager, which allows the player to move to the Scarab completely unhindered. The screen scrolls vertically non-stop, although the speed can be controlled; the player moves side to side to dodge the aforementioned obstacles.
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- 1.Wiswell, Phil. A Game To Beat The Band. Electronic Fun with Computer & Games. 1. 9. 83–85, 96. July 1983.
- 2.Sage, Vic. Journey Escape For The Atari 2600 On MTV!. Pop Culture Retrorama. 24 February 2020.
- 3.Heupel, Shannon. You won't want to 'Escape' from Black Jacket Symphony's Journey concert. Montgomery Adviser.
- 4.Lake, Steven. Journey Escape for the Atari 2600. journey-tribute.com.
- 5.Robbins, Michael. Journey Dorce : The Record : NPR. NPR.
- 6.Haider, Arwa. Joystick division! 10 bizarre band video games. bbc.co.uk. BBC Music. 18 August 2017.
- 7.Fletcher, JC. Virtually Overlooked: Journey Escape. Engadget.
- 8.Atari Age. AtariAge - Atari 2600 Manuals (HTML) - Journey Escape (Data Age).
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