

Canyon Bomber © 1977 Atari.
Canyon Bomber is a 2-D shooter. You control either the blimp or the plane while dropping bombs on the rocks below. Your goal is to get the highest amount of points (either against the computer or another player). You are allowed so many misses before your game ends. Misses are counted as the times you do not hit any rocks. The scores for the rocks are directly proportional to the difficulty in hitting those rocks. This game boils down to precision bombing and thinking ahead as to where the next bomb will fall. Good luck in taking out all of the rocks in the canyon.

Game ID : 009493-009504
Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 756 Khz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry.
Players : 2
Buttons : 1 (DROP)

Canyon Bomber was released in November 1977, selling at an MSRP of $1395.
Atari was at the top of the arcade battle in 1977. Releasing no fewer then nine arcade games, Atari was the dominating force and standard that videogames were based on. Many of Atari's games were simple games of skill and hand-eye coordination.
Canyon Bomber is Howie's second Atari project (Super Bug was his first). The author describes his game as 'upside-down Breakout' and says it was a far superior two-player competitive game than when played one person versus the computer. He modified the Sprint 2's circuitry, then programmed it.
David Nelson of Manchester, New Hampshire holds the official record for this game with 1399 points on November 17, 2007.

| Scoring in this game is pretty simple, you get the points that are displayed on the rocks as you destroy them | |
| 1 | One point |
| 2 | Two points |
| 3 | Three points |
| 4 | Four points |