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Bloody Human Freeway

Bloody Human Freeway

Console: Atari 2600
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): David Crane
Publisher(s): Activision
Release Date: 1981-01-01
Players: 1
Co-op: No
ESRB: Not Rated
Type: Platform

Prototype for Freeway. According to David Crane, he got the idea for Freeway from watching a man trying to cross Lake Shore Drive during rush-hour traffic while attending Chicago's Consumer Electronic Show.

Freeway originally featured people crossing the road instead of chickens since that was the scenario that inspired David Crane. However some people at Activision complained that they didn't like the idea of people being struck by cars, so chickens were substituted for people before the game was released.