
Dirt Bike
Designed by Dennis Koble and finished up by Ed Logg. Playtested but not released. Ian Baronofsky posted a photo of the bezel online in 2024. From Dennis Koble:
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There were a variety of other games that I worked on that were handed off to other programmers, such as a variant of Dirt Bike that Ed Logg took over and finished, and another variant of Sea Wolf (a popular game by a competitor) that was never finished called Wolf Pack. The team members varied with the project, but I worked with Howard Delman and Dan Van Elderen and shared an office with them for a time. |
From Ed Logg:
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The game was started by Dennis Koble ... it was a game similar to Sprint except you drove a dirt bike and the control was a set of handlebars that could be used to steer the bike instead of a steering wheel. We field tested the game and it earned enough money to make it good enough not to kill outright, but not good enough to make it into production. However, I had made Super Breakout at the same time I was working on Dirt Bike. No one at Atari had ever worked on two games at once before. Super Breakout had earned a large amount of money, and this probably led to the decision not to build Dirt Bike. I was not disappointed considering the success of Super Breakout. |
