Lost Luggage (video game)

Lost Luggage is a 1982 action video game developed and published by Games by Apollo for the Atari 2600. The player controls skycaps working at an airport and tries to collect pieces of luggage that fall overhead from a frantic luggage carousel. Reviewers criticized the game’s similarity to Activision’s Kaboom!believing Lost L luggage to be an inferior clone.

About Lost Luggage (video game) in brief

Lost Luggage is a 1982 action video game developed and published by Games by Apollo for the Atari 2600. The player controls skycaps working at an airport and tries to collect pieces of luggage that fall overhead from a frantic luggage carousel. Programmer Ed Salvo was inspired to make Lost Luggage when he was waiting for his luggage at the DallasFort Worth International Airport. A four-minute advertising jingle was made by Byron Parks for the game, but it was never used. Two versions were released, differentiated by the color of the label on the suitcases. In the green-labeled version, the game may be restarted by pressing the fire button, which does nothing in the blue- labeled version. Reviewers criticized the game’s similarity to Activision’s Kaboom! believing Lost L luggage to be an inferior clone.

The game was the first to integrate music on the 2600 as opposed to only sound effects. The sound effects and music were created by Larry Minor, and the game was released in September 1982. The studio filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 12, 1982, due to pressure from its advertising agency Benton & Bowles, to which Apollo owed USD 2.5 million. Although Roper expected the company to return in a small former form in 1983 after reorganization attempts failed, the company closed in September 1983 and went out of business. It was the only game Salvo worked on at the studio, and he later left as well.

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