It wasn’t long after this that Draw your maze type games became the flavor of the day. This game did have some music that could play although most of the time it would remain silent. With over a million maze combinations and single player against AI or 2 player competitive play, this would be as pure as a maze game could get. If you wanted a straightforward maze game then Midway would provide that in ’76 with Amazing Maze. Given that, this also fell into one of the first violent games.
This could have been called Feeding Frenzy as it was a 1-4 player game where in multiplayer mode, the goal was to be the first shark to eat five swimmers before the timer ran out. You also have to swim through a maze with shark traps. What made Shark a little different from Atari’s Shark JAWS and Project Support Engineering’s Maneater was that you played as the shark chasing down swimmers as opposed to avoiding the shark. This established the use of moving walls and the chase motif in games – it was quite simple but that was the case with games of this era.Ī couple of years later, as a quick cash in on the JAWS craze, a company not really associated with video games called US Billiards released Shark. This game has been mentioned numerous times on AH as being first in a few ideas has its benefits.
The first time the arcade industry would attempt the maze concept was Atari’s Gotcha (1973). When you look at it in-depth, the maze genre has been one of the most important and influential to be found in video games.
When most people think of maze or labyrinth arcade games, the first to come to mind would likely be Pac-Man but before we get into the most popular maze game ever, let’s take a look at some of the predecessors that set the stage for the famous international icon of such games. The subject for this one as you already saw with the headline: maze (labyrinth) games! Run ‘N Gun / Defense / Adventure/RPGs / Tanks, Planes, Mechs and More / Scrolling Fighters / Puzzle Games / Space Games That might be due to changing cultural tastes in what people like in a game, or a genre burns out due to a lack of creativity within the subject realm. Regardless of the reasons why these genres are ignored, I think with the right ideas a title fitting into one of these genres can still work. This week has been super slow for arcade news so this has given me some time to work on an article I’ve had floating in the queue for a while now.Ī few years ago I wrote some articles entitled “Missing In Action”, which focused on game genre that used to be popular in the arcade industry but for one reason or another they are rarely made anymore.
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