Anteater (video game)

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

Anteater is a maze arcade game released in 1982 by Stern, where the player controls 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 219,320 points [1]
  • Anteater is known in Britain as "The Anteater" and in Germany as "Ameisenbaer".

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