Crackpots

Crackpots
DeveloperActivision
PublisherActivision
DesignerDan Kitchen
PlatformAtari 2600
ReleaseMay 16, 1983
GenreFixed shooter
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer

Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983. It was Kitchen's first game for Activision.

In Crackpots, the player controls Potsy, a gardener. Potsy's Brooklyn building is being overrun by bugs trying to climb inside six windows. The player moves Potsy back and forth along the roof to drop pots on the bugs before they can get close enough to enter the windows.