Journey (1983)

What better way for your game to sell than to have your game feature one of the most popular rock bands of the early 80's, Journey? In this game, the band has to retrieve their instruments from crazed galactic groupies (yes, really) and then their manager has to protect them as long as possible. Rinse and repeat. The most notable things are how the game uses digitized photographs of the members, how the hardware includes a cassette player for playing "Separate Ways", and how frustrating the game can be.

Developer Credits#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: The programmers allegedly hid these by having the player press all the buttons plus hitting left on the joystick at the right time during Attract Mode (while the big face is on screen). This only works with no credits inserted. Even then, it usually never works. When it does work, they appear for two microseconds before vanishing. A screenshot of the in-game credits can be seen here.

At 0xF3E in the Z80's program space memory, there's a listing of people who worked on the game.

Below is a screenshot of what it looks like in-game. This could be the first game that shows the developers' faces.