Fishing Derby
1980 video game

Summary
Fishing Derby is a fishing video game written by David Crane for the Atari Video Computer System and published by Activision in 1980. It is one of the first video games developed by Activision.
Originally created by Gakon5
3/5/2006, 9:21:23 PM
Modified
4/16/2026, 5:14:31 AM
Recent revisions
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