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Grover's Music Maker [Model CX26106]

Unreleased Atari 2600 cart. published 41 years ago by Atari, Inc.

Listed in MAME

Grover's Music Maker [Model CX26106] screenshot

Grover's Music Maker © 1983 Atari, Incorporated.

Was an attempt by Atari to introduce children to the music through some well known (and some not so well known) children's tunes. Selecting one of the twenty letters (A -T), will cause Grover to start jumping around while some music is played in the background.

The tunes:

A) Old McDonald Had a Farm
B) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
C) Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
D) Over the River and Through the Woods
E) Hush Little Baby
F) The Itsy Bitsy Spider
G) My Hat Has Three Corners
H) Skip To My Lou
I) Three Blind Mice
J) Hickory Dickory Dock
K) Do You Know the Muffin Man?
L) A-Tisket, A-Tasket
M) Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
N) Sur le pont d'Avignon (Over the bridge of Avignon)
O) I'm a Little Teapot
P) Go In and Out the Window
Q) This Old Man
R) Unknown
S) Unknown
T) Bobby Shafto

TECHNICAL

Model CX26106

TRIVIA

Unreleased prototype

It was originally called Monkey Music and featured a dancing monkey instead of Grover.

It's unknown why the game got canned, but it may be due to Atari pulling the plug on the 2600 Children's series after its less than stellar performance. Other reasons may have been poor beta testing results or limited long term playability.

STAFF

Programmer & Graphics: Stephan Keith
Graphics: Laura Scholl

SOURCES

Game's ROM.