Taz

Taz is a game of firsts; it happens to be both the first (released) Looney Tunes video game and the first Asterix game. It's also the first Atari 2600 game where the developers were credited on the box, due to the game's developer threatening to quit his job unless it happened.

Developer Credits#

At the title screen, press Select (×22), Fire. Get 32,500 points, and when the Crazed Wave screen appears, holding down Fire will change the text to "Woita Wave", after the game's programmer Steve Woita.

This hidden credit cannot be accessed in Asterix.

Regional Differences#

In the United States, the game was reskinned and released under the name Taz.

EU	US

Apart from a new drawing of Taz and the removal of the Goscinny-Uderzo copyright, the green color was changed to brown.

EU	US

Obviously, the character and item graphics were replaced with new sprites. Asterix's head was replaced with Taz, the Roman treasures with food, and Cacofonix's lute with sticks of dynamite.

The Obelix Wave mode was renamed to Crazed Wave. In Asterix, the sprite is also changed to Obelix's head, while no additional change happens in Taz.

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