Where HE Comes Home!
Based on John Carpenter's 1978 horror movie of the same name, Halloween was released in October 1983 from Wizard Video Games. The graphics are fine for the 2600, but the color choice is just plain weird. The Halloween theme song is good, but the only music in the game is that. It only plays when Michael Myers appears in the same room you are. It resets whenever he enters the rooms, like the music in Deadly Towers. Michael Myers moves too slow at first, but the more points you get, he gets faster and becomes a real challenge. Michael Myers can chop off the heads of people and blood can spurt out in an Atari game. (This may be a plus, really.) If you get caught by Michael Myers, you lose a life. If the kids get caught... nothing happens. Not only is that off-putting, but it defeats the purpose of saving the kids. The only thing that happens if you save the kids is you get 675 points which is a strange amount of points to gain instead of 1 point or a multiple of 5 points. This isn't a good game, but it sure is an interesting one.