| Keystone Kapers | |
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| Developer(s) | Activision |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Designer(s) | Garry Kitchen |
| Platform(s) | Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, MSX |
| Release | May 1983
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| Genre(s) | Platform |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Keystone Kapers is a platform game developed by Garry Kitchen for the Atari 2600 and published by Activision in 1983. The game involves a Keystone Cops theme, with the player controlling police officer Kelly, who traverses the many levels of a department store, dodging objects to catch the escaped thief Harry Hooligan.
Kitchen designed the game after working on Atari 2600 games Space Jockey and a port of Donkey Kong. He wanted to develop a game similar to the latter game, and he began developing what would become Keystone Kapers. On the game's release in 1982, it received positive critical attention for its graphics and gameplay. It was later ported to other consoles such as the ColecoVision and Atari 5200.
Several pirated versions of Keystone Kapers imported from Taiwan were released by the Canadian grocery store chain Zellers under the name Busy Police.[1]
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