Anteater (Arcade Game)

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Anteater
Screenshot of Anteater
Screenshot of Anteater
Developer(s) Stern
Publisher(s) Stern
Designer(s) Chris Oberth
Release date(s) 1982 (Arcade)
1982 (Atari 2600)
Genre(s) Maze
Mode(s) Single player, Up to 2 players, alternating turns
Platform(s) Arcade Game, Atari 2600
Input 4-way Joystick, 1 Button
Arcade cabinet Vertical
Arcade CPU(s) Z80
Arcade sound system(s) Sound CPU : Z80
Sound Chips : AY8910
Arcade display Raster, 224 x 256 pixels, 99 colors

Anteater is a maze arcade game released in 1982 by Stern, where you play an anteater that elongates his sticky tongue through maze-like anthills eating ants and worms, while avoiding nasties like spiders biting his tongue.

[edit] Trivia

  • Freddie Morrish holds the record for this game with a maximum possible 219 320 points [1]
  • Anteater is known in Britain as "The Anteater" and in Germany as "Ameisenbaer".