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Name This Game
OctopusDeveloper(s) U.S. Games Publisher(s) Carrere Video Distribution Platform(s) Atari 2600 Release date(s) NA 1982
EU 1983Media/distribution ROM Cartridge Name This Game, also known as Octopus in Europe, is a video game for the Atari 2600 manufactured by US Games.
In the game, the player controls a diver who must protect a treasure from an octopus at the top of the screen that tries to capture the treasure with its tentacles. A shark also tries to distract the diver by swimming back and forth toward the bottom of the screen.
The diver loses a life if he is captured by the shark or the octopus's tentacles, or if the air meter runs out. The diver can refill his air meter by touching a long pole which extends from a boat that appears from time to time.
This game is called Name This Game in North America because of a contest in 1982 which challenged players to invent a name for the game. However, US Games went bankrupt and the contest was never completed. A common misconception is that the winning entry was called Octopus, the European name of the game. The winning title was actually Going Under (a term which is, perhaps ironically, a synonym for bankruptcy), but no cartridges were ever produced with that name.
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