Mat Mania Challenge is an Atari 7800 game released in 1990. It is based on the Mat Mania and Mania Challenge arcade games.
The Atari 7800 port does a fairly good job keeping the graphics and game play faithful to the arcade originals. However, it had a fatal flaw for fans of the original arcade game. All of the villain characters were missing. Apparently, in an effort to keep costs down, most Atari 7800 carts had a limited amount of memory. This necessitated cutting out stuff that really shouldn't have been. In this case, it meant a loss of several of the game's opponents. However, it really isn't that bad and games like this are usually more fun with two players anyway.
This game was also planned for the Atari XEGS but was never released. However, a prototype does exist. In addition, an emulated version of the original arcade game was released for the PS4 via Arcade Archives in 2015.
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