The game was developed by Mystique, a company that specialized in adult-oriented video games for the Atari 2600. It is part of a small, notorious sub-genre of "unlicensed" games that were not approved by Atari, Inc.

Women's groups, including the National Organization for Women (NOW), condemned the game for trivializing sexual violence. Native American advocacy groups, such as the American Indian Movement (AIM), protested the depiction of a historical villain as a hero and the reduction of an Indigenous woman to a trophy.

The gameplay is extremely simplistic, even by the standards of the early 1980s.

Released in , Custer’s Revenge is widely cited as the most controversial video game in history. Developed by Mystique for the Atari 2600 , the title became the flashpoint for the first major national debate over video game content, censorship, and morality. The Infamous Gameplay

In the end, Custer’s Revenge is not a game worth playing. It is a historical artifact worth remembering only as a lesson: that technology without ethics is just a machine for making bad ideas into interactive reality.