Freeway

Freeway is a video game designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 video game console. It was published by Activision in 1981. Freeway was one of the first titles released by Activision in their bold move to publish independent games for the Atari 2600. Both players control chicken who can be made to run across a ten-lane highway filled with traffic in an effort to "get to the other side." Every time a chicken gets across, a point is earned for that player. If hit by a car, the chicken is forced back a bit, and in some modes is pushed all the way back to the bottom of the screen. The winner is the player who has scored the most points in the two minutes allotted. The chickens are only allowed to move up or down. The chicken sprite includes a limited bit of animation and the character clucks when struck by a car. The original prototype version for Freeway was entitled Bloody Human Freeway. A few differences to the finished product were: at start up, cars were already on the freeway... full article at wikipedia