In 1984, just in time for the holiday season Rimbot Games released Silent Night Deadly Night on the Atari 2600. The game is based on the popular slasher flick released in the same year. In this retro classic you play as Denise, a girl who just wanted to have sex with her boyfriend Tommy on Christmas eve. But a noise has interrupted their fun time, thinking it was the cat she goes to investigate. Is that Santa Claus? Nope Denise, that's Billy a crazed killer and you've been naughty, RUN!
Much like other Atari games the point is to survive as long as you can to rack up a high amount of points. You control Denise around the living room avoiding flying deer heads with antlers, in the movie this is what Billy used to kill Denise, falling candy canes, zig zagging presents and of course Billy dressed as Santa. The game play is limited but fun and the music really gets you ready for Christmas.
The game has become an extreme rarity much like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, also on the Atari 2600. Silent Night was removed from retailers shelves due to the movie being pulled from theaters. Mothers all over the country were clamoring about "Santa decapitating and slicing people up". Fearing backlash the games were also pulled. No one is really sure where all of the copies of the game went, but the fate can't be any worse than the rumored happenings to the leftover E.T. cartridges two years earlier.
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