Mr. Bill's Neighborhood (lost build of cancelled Atari 2600 game; 1983)

Flyer of the game.

Status: Lost

Mr. Bill's Neighborhood is an cancelled 1983 Atari 2600 game based on a clay figurine character from Saturday Night Live by Walter Williams. The game was developed and published by Data Age and planned to released in April 1983. If this was released, it would have been the first Mr. Bill's video game. The game was shown at the 1983 Winter CES.

In this game, you would try to save Mr. Bill and his family away from the neighborhood from their arch rival Sluggo. Mr. Bill's travels would have hampered by speeding traffic, streets with dead end alleys and Mr. Hands, Mr. Bill and his family's another rival who would grab you and push you toward Sluggo.

Along with Data Age's another license game Smokey Bear, both games were finished and ready to be released but were cancelled for unknown reasons. According to an article in the October 1983 issue of Video Games magazine (page 32), when Data Age folded, the license for the game were send back to Mr. Bill creator Walter Williams.

After the cancellation of the game, no Mr. Bill games had been made until 2010 when two Mr. Bill games were released in a App Store by Beeline Interactive, Inc.

No prototypes or other information on the game have surfaced.

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  Prototype drawings of the sprites.