MAS*H by Doug Neubauer on the Atari 2600

M*A*S*H is an action game, based on the TV series, written for the Atari 2600 and published by Fox Video Games in 1983.

General Information

Developer - Doug Neubauer

Publisher - Fox Video Games

Release - 1983

Platform(s) - Atari 2600

Number of Players - Single Player

Genre - Action

It was designed and programmed by Doug Neubauer. Ports to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore VIC-20, Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, Intellivision, and ColecoVision followed. Players are tasked with controlling a helicopter and army doctors at varying points, with the mobile army surgical hospital (M*A*S*H) team rescuing wounded to take back to the M*A*S*H 4077. The TI-99/4A version is compatible with the speech synthesizer peripheral, and at times characters say phrases aloud, such as "butterfingers.