Chutes

Three RAM-ships race down three chutes in perspective, growing from distant dots to full-width menaces as they near you. Your ship sits at the bottom and hops between chutes to dodge them until one has gone by. They come faster with each level, a new level arrives every five rounds, and a won round scores twice the level. Survive 30 rounds and the game congratulates you. The article was a lesson in the Atari's player/missile size registers.

Controls: Left and right change chutes; the button starts each round.

ColecoVision version credited in the ROM to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a faithful adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE! magazine, April 1983, pages 86-90: original program by Matt Giwer. Published for Atari. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.