Canyon Bomber

Canyon Bomber is a black and white arcade game from 1978, developed and published by Atari. The game was rewritten in color and with a different visual style for the Atari 2600, also in 1978. The player and an opponent fly an airship or biplane over a canyon full of numbered, circular rocks arranged in layers. The player does not control the flight of the vehicles, but only presses a button to drop bombs that destroy rocks and give points. Each rock is marked with the number of points awarded for its destruction. The fewer rocks there are, the more difficult it is to hit them without missing. If a player drops a bomb for the third time without hitting a rock, the game is over.