Source: Video Games Player – November 1983
This ad is from 1983, probably near the height of popularity for the Atari 8-bit line of computers. It features three games written by Russ Wetmore and published by Adventure International: Preppie!, Preppie II and Sea Dragon. Preppie and Preppie II were original creations by Russ Wetmore and Sea Dragon was a conversion of a game from the TRS-80.
Preppie! is a Frogger clone but instead of featuring a frog, it capitalizes on the preppy trend of the 1980s. Instead of a highway and river, the setting is a country club where vehicles consist of things like golf carts and lawn mowers with canoes, logs and alligators featured in the water portion. Game play is very much the same as Frogger but instead of just reaching the other side, you must fetch golf balls and return them.
Preppie! II is a different style of game. It is a maze game in which you must paint the corridors pink by making your way through them. While a different style game, some of the obstacles remain the same, including golf carts and lawn mowers.
Sea Dragon is a horizontally scrolling shooter featuring a submarine. Game play is somewhat similar to the arcade game Scramble. You control a submarine making its way through an underwater labyrinth. You can shoot torpedoes upwards and forwards and must avoid ships dropping mines, mines rising from the bottom, lasers as well as other enemies and obstacles.
All three of these games were available both on cassette and on disk for the Atari 400, 800 and 1200. For cassette users, 16K of RAM was required and for disk users, 32K of RAM was required.
Apparently, Russ Wetmore stopped developing games after 1983 as a result of the great video game crash (which I didn’t really think affected computer games all that much) but went on to develop application software for Atari 8-bit computers.
The ad above is from the November 1983 issue of Video Game Player.