Fantastic Voyage (video game)

Fantastic Voyage
DeveloperSirius Software
PublisherFox Video Games
ProgrammerDavid Lubar
PlatformsAtari 2600, Atari 8-bit computers
ReleaseAtari 2600
  • December 1982
GenreScrolling shoot'em up
ModeSingle-player

Fantastic Voyage is a 1982 scrolling shoot'em up video game programmed by David Lubar of Sirius Software and published by Fox Video Games. It was released for the Atari 2600 in December 1982 and later for the Atari 8-bit computer line. The game is based on the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, and involves the player piloting a miniature submarine through the bloodstream to rescue a patient with a life-threatening blood clot.

Developed by David Lubar, it was his second game he made for the Atari 2600 during his tenure at Sirius Software following Worm War I (1982). As Sirious had a working relationship with Fox Video Games, it had its programmers develop video game adaptations of various films in their catalogue, which led to Lubar choosing Fantastic Voyage. On its release, reviews in The Video Game Update and Videogaming Illustrated found the gameplay and graphics mediocre, while other reviews in Videogaming Illustrated and Video Games said the game did offer some unique elements and themes to the shoot'em up genre. Lubar continued making games for Fox and Sirius until both companies folded due to events involving the video game crash of 1983.