City by the Lake is a very early Atari 2600 demonstration from Western Technologies, created not as a game, but as a technical showcase to demonstrate what a newly established development team could achieve on Atari's difficult-to-program console. The surviving material consists of a short looping animation showing a jet flying across a landscape while the reflection of a city shimmers in the water below. There is no player interaction or gameplay, but it provides a fascinating glimpse of early Atari 2600 development. Continue reading →