Salmon Run is a 1982 video game for the Atari 8-bit family created by Bill Williams and distributed via the Atari Program Exchange. Salmon Run was the first game in Williams's career, followed by a string of successes noted for their oddball concepts. The player takes the role of Sam the Salmon, swimming upriver to mate. Along the way he encounters waterfalls, a bear, fishermen, and seagulls. In 1983, Salmon Run was released for the Commodore VIC-20 by Synapse Software under the name Showcase Software.