Miner 2049er Volume II, published by Tigervision in 1983 for the Atari 2600, picks up exactly where the first part of Big Five Software's classic port leaves off: Bounty Bob has to keep exploring the sections of a radioactive mine, painting each platform just by stepping on it while dodging mutant creatures, unable to repeat already-covered ground. The reason for splitting it into two cartridges was purely technical: the complete game, with its ten original screens, didn't fit into the four kilobytes available on a standard 2600 cartridge, so Volume II added the remaining three screens. It's a direct testament to how much studios had to negotiate between design ambition and hardware limits in the console's early years.
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