Wabbit

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30K plays 1982 #Shooter

Wabbit is a 1982 video game developed by Apollo for the Atari 2600. It is an action video game in which the player controls a girl, Billie Sue, who must shoot eggs at rabbits named 'wabbits' invading a carrot patch to earn points. Wabbit was developed by Vietnamese-American programmer Van Mai, who pitched the idea to the developer, and was given creative freedom to design, program and animate the game. Wabbit received a limited release and minimal marketing, as Apollo filed for bankruptcy shortly after publication.

At release, Wabbit received mixed reviews, with praise for its visuals and criticism directed at its slow pace and repetition. Following release, the game garnered retrospective recognition by the Video Game History Foundation as the earliest surviving video game to feature a named, playable female protagonist. In 2022, video game researchers and the Foundation were able to identify Mai as the developer of the game from Apollo's bankruptcy records.

From Wikipedia's article Wabbit (video game), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

Atari 2600Player 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
FireZN
Game SelectShift
Game ResetEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Most games start with Game Reset. Paddle games (Breakout, Kaboom!…) need a gamepad stick.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

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Keyboard controls

Atari 2600Player 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
FireZN
Game SelectShift
Game ResetEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Most games start with Game Reset. Paddle games (Breakout, Kaboom!…) need a gamepad stick.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

WabbitAtari 2600

2.0 Could be better

Players 57 · 48 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

GamePro scorecard

  1. Graphics — Not scored
  2. Sound — Not scored
  3. Control — Not scored
  4. Fun Factor — Not scored

Category scores aren't available for this version.

What the reviews talk about

Key wordsboringplayabledifficultfun

What the critics said

  • The Logical Gamer felt the game had visual appeal, but stated "there really isn't enough meat to this game for adults to stay interested in it for long".

    — Gamer, 1983

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Wabbit (video game) article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

Full reviews

GamePro face key

  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

GamePro named the five whole-number faces; a thumbs-up adds half a point to the same caption. GamePro’s original rating-face design, adapted from Ryan Quintal’s 2018 vector recreation; cleanup for YouConsoles.

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