Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell

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Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell
Developer(s) Parker Brothers
Publisher(s) Parker Brothers
Designer(s) Mark Lesser
Release date(s) Prototype version only
Genre(s) Platform
Mode(s) Single player
Platform(s) Atari 2600
Media Cartridge
Input Joystick

Lord of the Rings: Journey to Rivendell was a video game that was scheduled to be released on the Atari 2600 and published by Parker Brothers. However, it was never released, and it was believed to have had little or no work done on the game's coding. Twenty years later, a former Parker Brothers employee gave a prototype of the game to the operator of the website Atari Age. Surprisingly the game was quite complex and seemed to be complete. Several characters from the book make appearances in the game, including Frodo, Sam, Strider, Gandalf, Tom Bombadil, and Glorfindel.

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