| 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 began developing what would become Keystone Kapers. On the games 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.
Garry's brother Dan Kitchen planned to follow-up his first Atari 2600 game Crackpots with a sequel to Keystone Kapers. Dan's game would have Western-setting. In 2018, Dan found the only surviving copy of the unfinished game in a storage unit and planned to release it under the title Gold Rush.