Atari is coming out with “Save Mary,” the latest addition to their limited-edition Atari XP series featuring actual 2600 cartridges. These cartridges are newly produced in the United States using high-quality materials and rigorous manufacturing standards. Although “Save Mary” isn’t the first game to be rescued from the pile of cancelled late-stage 2600 games, it follows the release of “Mr. Run and Jump” earlier this year.

The gameplay of “Save Mary” revolves around constructing a platform for the character Mary to escape a flooding canyon. The game was highly anticipated during its development and even received praise from Atari founder Nolan Bushnell in a 1989 interview with Atarian, an Atari-focused magazine.

In the interview, Bushnell mentioned, “Then there’s one called ‘Saving [sic] Mary’ which I really like. It is the first game in which you rely on construction rather than destruction to save the princess. You build towers at the base of a river gorge to keep Mary out of the water, which is constantly rising. You have an unlimited supply of building materials, but you can lose a life by either squashing Mary with a piece of building material or building so slowly that you fail to get her out of the water and she drowns. The guilt you feel is tremendous.”

Interestingly, “Save Mary” has been available to the public as a ROM dump for many years since prototype cartridges were discovered in 1997.