Questions about Amidar

[+Random Terrain]

1. The paths can be considered a maze, right? When I look up the word maze, it seems to qualify.

 

2. Is Amidar the only Zone Capture game on the Atari 2600?

 

 

Thanks.

Edited March 19, 2006 by Random Terrain

[NovaXpress]

I totally consider games like Amidar and Make Trax to be maze games. Whether you eat dots or claim territory, it's the same play mechanic (Pepper II took this to a different level by giving you the ability to unzip).

[+Random Terrain]

Thanks. Now all I need to do is find out if this in the only game on the Atari 2600 where you capture areas of the screen.

Edited March 19, 2006 by Random Terrain

[dwh]

Demolition Herby is the other game that you 'capture' areas of the playfield.

[sandmountainslim]

Do you not capture areas of the field in Othello?

[+Random Terrain]

Demolition Herby is the other game that you 'capture' areas of the playfield.

Thanks. Never played that one, so I just tried it. The controls are way better on that game. Not as 'sticky'. The playfield also looks a little more like arcade Amidar than 2600 Amidar does.

[+Random Terrain]

Do you not capture areas of the field in Othello?

Yeah, thanks. I'm going to leave Othello in the board game category though.

 

I'm putting Amidar and Demolition Herby in a subcategory called Zone Capture under Maze-Chase.

[supercat]

Spiderdroid by Froggo appears to be a published hack of Amidar, and should probably be mentioned for completeness.

[+Random Terrain]

Spiderdroid by Froggo appears to be a published hack of Amidar, and should probably be mentioned for completeness.

Thanks.

[Foxsolo2000]

There was also Netmaker by Quelle which was an Amidar pirate with the gorilla being turned into a spider

[YOK-dfa]

What about miner 2049'er volume I+II ?

[NovaXpress]

What about miner 2049'er volume I+II ?

No way. Running and jumping is a world apart from running around in a restricted path.

 

Amidar is a maze game and a direct descendent of Pac-Man. The play mechinc is identical: claim territory in a maze. Whether this is signified by the removal or dots or a change of color in the maze itself is irrelevant. Amidar uses a clever visual twist to give the genre a new spin.

[YOK-dfa]

What about miner 2049'er volume I+II ?

No way. Running and jumping is a world apart from running around in a restricted path.

 

Amidar is a maze game and a direct descendent of Pac-Man. The play mechinc is identical: claim territory in a maze. Whether this is signified by the removal or dots or a change of color in the maze itself is irrelevant. Amidar uses a clever visual twist to give the genre a new spin.

 

In Miner 2049'er you also claim territory by running over it. Moving around in that game is just as restricted as in Pacman (you still have to stay in the pre-programmed paths). Wether or not you could call it a maze is debatable though...

[NovaXpress]

It's not debatable. Miner 2049er is a platform game.

 

If that's a maze game then so is Donkey Kong and Pitfall.

[Rom Hunter]

http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft-MENU-2-...ILLE_ID-33.html

 

[StanJr]

It's not debatable. Miner 2049er is a platform game.

 

If that's a maze game then so is Donkey Kong and Pitfall.

 

 

Wrong. In neither of those games do you claim territory. Miner 2049er is debatable because you do claim territory to complete the level, however you do it via platforming.

[NovaXpress]

RT and I have been hashing out the definitions: We have two different play mechanics to consider. One is platform vs maze. The other is "territory-acquistition" vs "finish-line" games.

 

So Miner 2049er would be a territory-acquisition platformer. Amidar would be a territory-acquisition maze game.

Donkey Kong would be a finish-line platformer. Maze Craze would be a finish-line maze game.

 

How do those categorizations strike you all?

[StanJr]

I like 'em. Crispy on the outside, but chewy on the inside.

[+Random Terrain]

RT and I have been hashing out the definitions: We have two different play mechanics to consider. One is platform vs maze. The other is "territory-acquistition" vs "finish-line" games.

 

So Miner 2049er would be a territory-acquisition platformer. Amidar would be a territory-acquisition maze game.

Donkey Kong would be a finish-line platformer. Maze Craze would be a finish-line maze game.

 

How do those categorizations strike you all?

Thanks. Territory Acquisition sounds better than Zone Capture.

[Gack]

Woah. I was playing this when I clicked on this topic. very odd

 

 

I consider it a maze game...Maybe even just a primtive Qix

[+Random Terrain]

There are more games that fit under Territory Acquisition, so I'll just make that a real category instead of repeating it as a subcategory. That will make things easier.