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Bobby is Going Home

Bobby is Going Home is a 2D action platformer video game cartridge released for the Atari 2600 console in 1983. The player controls a boy named Bobby who has to pass through seven screens, jump over animals…

31 December 1983

Bobby is Going Home is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Bit Corporation, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 2600.

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What Bobby is Going Home is

Bobby is Going Home is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Bit Corporation and released in 1983. It was published by CCE. It is available on Atari 2600 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bobby is Going Home is a 2D action platformer video game cartridge released for the Atari 2600 console in 1983. The player controls a boy named Bobby who has to pass through seven screens, jump over animals like butterflies, ducks and other hazards. The game play resembles Pitfall!, a game released by Activision. At the end of the game all the player has to do is get Bobby into the house, and there the next level will show. Hitting reset and select change the style of flowers that show at the bottom of the screen.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Bobby is Going Home launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Bobby is Going Home come out?
Bobby is Going Home was released on 31 December 1983 for Atari 2600.

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