Technical Details
Alley Cat was not Bill Williams's creation, but in fact a game started and abandoned by another programmer at Synapse Software that he completed. Originally produced for the Atari 8-bit family, Williams then ported it to the IBM PC. The latter was one of the more popular games for the PC at the time and became more well-known than its technically superior Atari counterpart.
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