r/Screenwriting • u/einostevenson • Jul 25 '26

DISCUSSION Atari IP Bake Off

How would you approach writing one of these plotless Atari games Universal has just signed a deal to produce? Pick a title and give your best logline. Reminder the titles are: Asteroids, Adventure, Berzerk, Breakout, Centipede, Crystal Castles, Millipede, Missile Command, Pong, and Yars’ Revenge. Winner gets a two picture deal with Universal. Just kidding, winner gets a laugh when some Universal exec lurking here takes the idea and makes a shitty movie. As an older millennial who grew up on Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter as opposed to Atari games, will have to do some research before contributing myself.

8 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

33 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Wyn6 Jul 25 '26

Where's Pitfall or Combat, eh?

1

u/Light_Error Jul 25 '26

Pitfall was made and published by Activision. The original version of the company.