Spies in the Night (Atari VCS)

by Jared Gray West

You play a spy who must sneak behind a dilapidated wall, across several screens, to a detonator which will blow up the lighthouse whose rotating lamp can reveal your position and get you machine gunned to pieces. You must time your runs and hide behind the wall sections when the light shines your way. Sometimes the wall fragments are so low that you need to duck down behind them to avoid the fatal light.

You make Chuck Norris look like the sugar plum fairy as you can somehow survive being machine gunned to pieces several times. However, your mission is time sensitive so if you dilly dally around time will run out and the mission will fail. Further missions add other hazards, like people trying to blow your head off, just to keep your job interesting.

This is my favourite Atari VCS homebrew game I've played in 2018.