Guys. There's a Halloween game for the Atari 2600. And it is iconically silly.
You play as a blonde girl with blinding white tights, and your task is to walk leisurely away from Michael Myers, who spawns after a few seconds on each screen and follows you as a scintillating 8-bit version of the Halloween theme plays. It's sort of... cute.
The game, you will immediately discover, is broken beyond belief. You can walk to the next screen and then return to despawn the man, and so you're never in any real danger of getting gotten. Your task is to meander around the map until you find a weapon, with which you can hit your frightening villain one single time to kill his ass and gain a few hundred points. Then he returns, and you must do the same thing once again. This is more or less the extent of the gameplay, and it is delectably stupid.
It's pretty rapidly dull, given that there is nothing to do but run circles around your sad, useless enemy - aside from escorting some random children to safety, or alternatively watching them be brutally slain (you're not punishing for leaving them to die) - but there is an incredible delight to this empty interpretation of the movie. There are sections with flickering lights that are fairly effectively scary - if I can't see him for a second, he actually maybe could possibly get me! But nah... he's never gonna get me.
It's so good.
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