Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Maze-Chase Games
Pac-Man
is the best-known maze-chase game,
a game in which the player navigates the
character through a maze to avoid enemies.
It achieved mainstream popularity and
produced the i rst game character popular in
its own right. The follow-up,
Ms Pac-Man,
was
released one year after Namco's original
Pac-
Man
by the Bally/Midway Company, a famous
pinball game maker who had distributed the
original
Pac-Man
game in the US.
Ms. Pac-Man
(Midway, 1982) was the successor to the
wildly popular
Pac-Man
game by Namco.
Credit:
Jeremy Engel.
Platform Games
Donkey Kong
(Nintendo, 1981) is a classic platform game.
Credit:
Jeremy Engel.
In platform games, the player manipulates a character to jump or move
from platform to platform to advance through gameplay.
Donkey Kong
(1981) is the classic example of a platform game.
