> "Games for the Atari 2600 were quite constrained."

This is a vast understatement...

This is a great bit of learning about how the game worked.

If you want to hear about how the game was made from David Crane himself there is this video on Youtube from GDC 2011 that was equally interesting

https://youtu.be/MBT1OK6VAIU?si=NZLrALSUJiFgwxlG