Happy Trails (video game)

{{Short description|1983 video game}}

{{infobox video game

| title = Happy Trails

| image = Happy Trails cover.jpg

| platforms = Intellivision

| publisher = Activision

| developer = Activision

| programmer = Carol Shaw{{cite web |last1=Hague |first1=James |title=The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers |url=https://dadgum.com/giantlist/}}

| released = 1983

| genre = Puzzle

| modes = Single-player, multiplayer

}}

Happy Trails is a video game programmed by Carol Shaw for the Intellivision console and released by Activision in 1983.{{cite web | url=http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/activision.shtml#happytrails | title=Activision Games For Intellivision | accessdate=August 28, 2016 | archive-date=December 25, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225120034/http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/activision.shtml#happytrails | url-status=usurped }} The player must navigate a character through a broken maze to collect gold.{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=266&dat=19630520&id=Hv8uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=TNwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2470,3525667&hl=en | title=Video Action: Company Shook Industry with Early Ideas | work=Kentucky New Era | date=May 27, 1983 | accessdate=September 5, 2016 | author=Bentley, Rick}} Shaw previously wrote River Raid for the Atari 2600.

Happy Trails is a clone of the 1982 Konami arcade game Loco-Motion.{{cite web |title=Loco-Motion |url=http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/1983b.html#locomotion |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180611110356/http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/games/credits/1983b.html#locomotion |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2018-06-11 |website=IntellvisionLives.com}} Mattel was working on an official port, but Happy Trails was published first, resulting in Loco-Motion being sold at a discount and without any marketing support.