Blueprint

Le jeu

Blueprint on the Atari 2600 is a weird, funny, and actually pretty clever action/puzzle game where you’re trying to build a secret weapon before a monster catches your girlfriend. The screen shows a neighborhood of houses, and inside those houses are different parts of your machine. You run around, enter houses, grab one part at a time, and bring each piece back to your workshop at the bottom to assemble it according to the actual blueprint layout. While you’re doing this, you’ve got to avoid random hazards like bombs that sometimes appear instead of real parts, plus there’s constant time pressure because the monster keeps chasing. Once the weapon is fully assembled, you use it to blast the monster and save the day. It’s basically part scavenger hunt, part memory test, part panic. ATARI