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Demon Attack
Demon Attack is a fixed shooter written by Rob Fulop for the Atari 2600 and published by Imagic in 1982. It was later ported to several consoles including the Magnavox Odyssey².
Demon Attack is supposedly based on the 1979 arcade shooter Galaxian, though it also closely resembles the 1980 arcade game Phoenix. The similarities prompted a lawsuit from Atari, Inc., who had purchased the latter's home video game rights. Imagic settled out of court, and Demon Attack became Imagic's best-selling game as of 1983.
The game was originally programmed to end after the 84th wave, as Fulop did not expect anyone to get that far. Two days after it's initial release however, the game was reported to have been beaten. After this initial run of cartridges, Fulop went back and changed a single line of code so that the game never ends. The Odyssey² version was the first third-party game for the console.
