''Happy Trails'' is a video game programmed by

Carol Shaw Carol Shaw (born 1955) is one of the first female game designers and programmers in the video game industry. She is best known for creating the Atari 2600 vertically scrolling shooter ''River Raid'' (1982) for Activision. She worked for Atari, Inc ...

for the

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console and released by

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in 1983. The player must navigate a character through a broken maze to collect gold. Shaw previously wrote ''

River Raid ''River Raid'' is a vertically scrolling shooter designed and programmed by Carol Shaw and published by Activision in 1982 for the Atari 2600 video game console. Over a million game cartridges were sold. Activision later ported the title to th ...

'' for the Atari 2600. ''Happy Trails'' is a clone of the 1982

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arcade game '' Loco-Motion''. Mattel was working on an official port, but ''Happy Trails'' was published first, resulting in ''Loco-Motion'' being sold at a discount and without any marketing support.

Reception

''Joystik'' magazine wrote, "This is a great game. The strategic possibilities are seemingly endless," giving an overal rating of 5 out of 5 stars.

References

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