List of maze video games

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Maze game was a computer game genre description used by computer journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field was a maze. Quick player action is required to escape monsters, outrace an opponent, or navigate the maze within a time limit.

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[edit] Top-down maze games

[edit] First-person maze games

  • Maze War, 1972, Imlac PDS-1
  • 3D Monster Maze[1], 1981, ZX Spectrum
  • Maze, 1982, ZX Spectrum
  • Alien Maze, 1983, ZX Spectrum
  • 3-Demon, 1983, MS-DOS
  • Skull, 1984, ZX Spectrum / Commodore 64

[edit] Maze chase games

This genre is exemplified by Pac-Man (1980), which spawned many sequels and clones.

[edit] Pac-Man and clones

See also: List of Pac-Man sequels
See also: Pac-Man clones

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b c d e “MAZE GAMES”, CRASH, April, 1984, <http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/lguide05.htm> 
  2. ^ a b “ARCADE MIND GAMES”, Sinclair User, June, 1984, <http://www.sincuser.f9.co.uk/027/arcade.htm> 
  3. ^ Ghost Hunt at World of Spectrum
  4. ^ a b “GHOST GOBBLING”, CRASH, April, 1984, <http://www.crashonline.org.uk/03/lguide06.htm> 
  5. ^ Gnasher at World of Spectrum

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