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Pac-Man, [ a] originally called Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. In North America, the game was released by Midway Manufacturing as part of its licensing agreement with Namco America. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four ...
Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with an abrupt change in image or event, usually ...
Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field is a maze. Quick player action is required to escape monsters, outrace an opponent, or navigate the maze within a time limit.
Maze, also known as Maze War, [a] is a 3D multiplayer first-person shooter maze game originally developed in 1973 and expanded in 1974. The first version was developed by high school students Steve Colley, Greg Thompson, and Howard Palmer for the Imlac PDS-1 minicomputer during a school work/study program at the NASA Ames Research Center .
Mouse Trap is a maze video game developed by Exidy and released in arcades in 1981. It is similar to Pac-Man, with the main character replaced by a mouse, the dots with cheese, the ghosts with cats, and the energizers with bones. After collecting a bone, pressing a button turns the mouse into a dog for a brief period of time.
Perplexus, originally released as Superplexus, is a 3-D ball-in-a-maze puzzle or labyrinth game enclosed in a transparent plastic sphere. By twisting and turning it, players try to maneuver a small steel ball through a complex maze along narrow plastic tracks. The maze has many steps (varying across puzzles). The number of steps ranges from 30 ...
This is a list of games in the 2017 version of British game show The Crystal Maze, sorted by zone. The coloured backgrounds denote the type of game: - Mental - Mystery - Physical - Skill ALIS - Automatic Lock-in Situation Aztec Zone Name of game Explanation Time ALIS Balancing scales Use a raft to retrieve sandbags and balance a set of scales to release the crystal 3:00 None Word wheel Turn ...
The Amazing Maze Game is an arcade video game [1] developed by Midway and released in 1976. Consisting of a black and white CRT screen running on an Intel 8080 CPU, It is considered one of the earliest maze games produced, [ 1 ] and also displays an early example of the phrase "game over."