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A Game 42-Years in the Making

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Keystone Kapers II

1983 Version of KEYSTONE KANNONBALL

In 1983, while a Game Designer at Activision, I started designing a spiritual sequel game to my brother Garry's smash hit, KEYSTONE KAPERS™.

I had assumed that after having to deal with all of Harry Hooligan's shenanigans, Keystone Kelly was ready to move west and retire.  He had after all been busy everyday catching Harry over and over again while he dodged shopping carts, chased bouncing beach balls, jumped over cathedral radios and ducked under flying toy airplanes.  And who can ever forget those endless trips in the store elevator, up and down, down and up, up and down.  Exhausting!  

Keystone and I both thought, what could be more relaxing then working outdoors and seeing the new frontier, and given our mutual love of railroading, what better way to live out his retirement days then as a conductor on an old western railroad.  The GR&RR in fact.  The Gold Rush Railroad wandered through the high desert of the west past flowering cactus, wild flora, majestic mountains and breathtaking sunsets.  Yea, this was the life. 

 

And so I started to design on the Atari 2600 what would become known as KEYSTONE KANNONBALL, that is until the Great Video Game Crash of 1983...  Fast forward to a humid summer afternoon in June, 2018 at an offsite storage facility in New Jersey.  In the darkest corner of that facility, in an unlabeled, unassuming dusty cardboard box, there it was, the KEYSTONE KANNONBALL cartridge I had made 35 years earlier which I thought was lost for all time.  And though Keystone Kelly's dream of retirement never came to fruition, the cartridge I found that hot afternoon has been donated to the National Videogame Museum and the game concept I conceived of years ago was finally completed in November 2025 as CASEY'S GOLD™multi-screen action adventure platformer published by Audacity Games!  And Keystone Kelly?  Why he's still chasing old Harry Hooligan up and down those department store escalators, and couldn't be happier!

ALL ABOARD!

FOR THE WILDEST RIDE IN THE WEST!

In CASEY'S GOLD, play as Casey O'Kelly, conductor of the Gold Rush Gulch Railroad who must search through 30 action-packed levels for stolen gold bars and coins while avoiding a variety of comical obstacles.

DAN KITCHEN'S CASEY'S GOLD™

What Players Are Saying...

STANDARD EDITION

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  • Full Color Box
  • Physical Cartridge
  • Full Color Manual

COLLECTOR EDITION

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  • Full Color Box
  • Physical Cartridge
  • Full Color Manual
  • Certificate of Authenticity signed by Dan Kitchen

"I haven't been this excited about a 2600 game release since I was a kid!"

John Hardie

Director

National Videogame Museum

"Fantastic game! Like being 10 years old again! Makes me feel like a kid again and you can't put a price on that!"

Tim Landis
Tim's Tiny Arcade

"It's addictively fun and has captured that classic Activision 'feel' that we all love so much. IMO ranks up there with the classics of the time. Amazing job Daniel Kitchen!"

Kyle Whelan

"I hope Audacity keeps making games of this caliber… simply amazing."

"... And I'm assuming everyone else is in awe the way I am as far as this being such a classic that feels completely like its right up there with Pitfall and Keystone Kapers and all those other Activision classics!"

Paul McCormack​

"I have a definite new favorite game to play on my 2600! Casey's Gold from Audacity Games! I play this game for the first time in this video (as you can tell, I did not read the instructions ??) and boy do I love it! Daniel Kitchen really outdid himself on this!"

William "Willie!" Culver
Arcade USA

"Such an incredible game for our beloved Atari 2600! The bonus level is such a killer variance."

Daniel Powell

Rich Walter

Introducing CASEY'S GOLD, a brand new action adventure platformer for your Atari 2600 console from veteran Activision Game Designer, Dan  Kitchen and Audacity Games.

COLLECTIBLE HIGH SCORE PATCHES!

In keeping with the time-honored tradition started by Activision in 1980, Audacity Games offers High-Score Collectible Patches for all their games!  Each collectible patch not only rewards players for their scoring achievements, but also celebrates their enrollment in each game's exclusive club!
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Golden Spike Club Patch
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