Freeze (Atari) (prototype, 96/09/07, Jamma-96)

Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Freeze (c) 1996 Atari Games Corporation.

Freeze is a highly addictive, head-to-head, 3-D action-puzzle game where players join a wild cast of characters on an underwater fish sorting adventure. Players sort combos out of cute little fishies that swim, smile and wink. Challenge and strategy build as players learn different characters each possessing a unique special weapon. An exciting quiz game offers players an opportunity to race against time solving a multitude of colorful fishie puzzles. Combining these playful characters with the simple addictive gameplay will have players sorting fish in their sleep. The true challenge of any puzzle game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : R3000 (@ 33 Mhz), (2x) Jaguar (@ 26 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DAC (@ 26 Mhz)

Palette colors : 65534

Players : 2
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

This game is an unreleased prototype running on the Cojag hardware (but don't use a hard disk). Two Freeze machines was showed up at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme', San Jose, California.

- STAFF -

Producer: Mike Hally (MLH)
Programmer: Jun Amanchi (JUN), Norm Avellar (NLA)
Audio : John Paul (J P)
Animators: Nicholas Weigel