SPEAK TO ME

■ As ambitious as Owen was, he never planned to include speech in back during the game’s development. Mysteriously and completely unknown to Owen however, someone in Atari’s hardware’s PCB has integrated circuit locations specifically laid for Texas Instruments’ TMS-5220 chip. The chip was the cutting edge of speech emulation software in the early Eighties. Atari used it in a number of its arcade games, such as its smash hit from 1983. With some work, could have joined those hallowed halls.