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June 6th, 2016 
Carl Williams 
Okay, I will be honest here. When first contacted about covering the upcoming Kickstarter for a new Atari 2600 game, I was apprehensive that it would succeed. I mean, in this day and age? I am used to people making illegal ports of games to the Atari 2600- stuff you cannot easily take to crowdfunding services like Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. Joe Grisaffi, independent film maker, and our very own Jason Santuci have teamed up to bring Conjoined to the Atari 2600. The cool thing is, it is already funded on Kickstarter and has 24 days to go. Color me surprised.
The story behind Conjoined, the indie movie, is a love story at its heart. See, this guy who is lonely finds his true love- amazing in life really if you think about it. There is a problem though- she has a twin. A conjoined twin. It gets worse though- this twin is quite the evil little thing. The twin has a love too- a love of ending the lives of other people. This puts a major strain on the romance of the star and the good twin.
The Atari 2600 game is all about collecting hearts from the good twin while avoiding broken hearts and daggers that the evil twin throws. Man, she is certainly evil. The gameplay, based on the video footage on the Kickstarter page, is very reminiscent of Turmoil by 20th Century Fox also on the Atari 2600. You move up and down the ladder in the middle of the screen collecting/avoiding the items that come flying in from either side of the screen.
Conjoined, the movie, is available on Amazon Instant Video for $1.99 but if you have a Roku device and the Independent Network Channel, you can view it for free.
There are some limitations on Conjoined for the Atari 2600- limited editions and the like. That means, if you want one, get your butt over to Kickstarter and pledge while it is still available.
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