Super Bug (video game)

Super Bug
Developer(s)	Atari
Publisher(s)	Kee Games[1]
Designer(s)	Wendi Allen[2]
Platform(s)	Arcade
Release	NA: September 1977[1]
Genre(s)	Racing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Super Bug is an arcade video game developed, manufactured, and released by Atari, Inc. in 1977. The player steers a yellow Volkswagen Beetle (or "Bug") along a multi-directionally scrolling track, avoiding the boundaries and occasional obstacles. The game ends when fuel runs out. Super Bug is in black and white, and the colored car comes from a yellow overlay in the center of the monitor.

The 1978 Atari arcade game Fire Truck is based on Super Bug.^[3] Both games were programmed by Wendi Allen (credited as Howard Delman).^[2]

Originally titled City Driver, the video game Super Bug was the first to be designed and programmed by Wendi Allen. Allen stated in an interview that she had to learn a lot about the game development process during the nine months it took to create Super Bug.^[3]

Joe Decuir of Atari was writing a version of the game for Atari 8-bit computers which was never completed.^[4]

In the United States, it was among the top 35 highest-grossing arcade games of 1977, according to RePlay.^[5] It went on to become the fourth highest-grossing arcade game of 1978 according to Play Meter,^[6] or the year's fifth highest according to RePlay.^[7] It was later the 19th highest-grossing arcade video game of 1979, according to Play Meter.^[8]

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