Amazing Maze
Manufacturer: Midway, 1976
Description:
Each player (up to 2 people may play at a time, 2-player mode is
more fun), controls a little geometric shape. Each player starts at
opposite sides of the maze. The object is to get to the point where
the other player started, before they get to where you started. You
use a joystick to guide your 'character' through the maze. The game
is time based, and you score a point for each maze you beat faster
than your opponent (or the computer player if you are going solo).
The factory setting is for a 90 second game, but this is operator
adjustable. The graphics are done in monochrome white on black. With
no detail on anything. The maze walls are only a pixel thick, while
the characters themselves (simple shapes), are not much bigger. The
mazes are not stylized in any way. They look exactly like the kind
of maze you would do with a paper and pen.
History:
This is one of the first maze video game ever produced, and far more
complex than you may be used to seeing. It's not like Pac-Man. The
mazes in this game are as complex as ones you might find in those
little maze books you may have had as a child, with none of that
multiple path approach used in Pac-Man. These mazes have only one
correct pathway through them.
The maze changes with every point made and never repeats itself. You
can play the game for 24 hours or for 24 years and not see the same
pattern.
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