“Video Game Archaeologists” are tasked with unearthing long-forgotten pieces of software and pulling them apart.

“Video Game Archaeologists” are tasked with unearthing long-forgotten pieces of software and pulling them apart.

In this case, the 1982 Entombed game for the Atari has its fair share of mysteries. Was the programmer drunk when he wrote it? Possibly…

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190919-the-maze-puzzle-hidden-within-an-early-video-game

An academic paper examining this software: (pdf) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.02035.pdf