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The Frostbite Atari game

Frostbite is a classic Atari game where you control a game character that is building an igloo. The game screen is shown in the following screenshot:

The Frostbite game screen

The bottom part of the screen is water, with floating ice blocks arranged in four rows. The game character jumps from one row to another while trying to avoid various foes. If the game character jumps on a white ice block, this block is collected and used to build an igloo on the shore in the top right of the screen. After that, the white ice block changes its color and cannot be used anymore.

To build the igloo, the game character must collect ...