Amidar (アミダー Amidā?) is a maze-like game developed and published by Konami, released in 1981 for arcade platforms.
Gameplay[]
Amidar plays like a mix of Pac-Man and Qix. The player moves their character around a maze and color all the rectangles by moving around their edges, with the main objective being to color all rectangles in the stage. Stages are littered with tow types of enemies, the Amidars, which can freely move on the maze, and the Tracers, which only move around the corners. The player can press the main action button to cause all enemies in the maze to jump, although this can only be used three times per stage.
On odd-numbered levels, the player controls a yellow gorilla and must collect all the coconut dots around the maze in addition to coloring the rectangles. If the player manages to color the four corner rectangles, the gorilla gains a brief period of invincibility and is able to knock enemies out of the maze, although they'll recover after a while.
On even-numbered stages, the player controls a paint roller. Unlike the gorilla, the roller can only fill rectangles next to each other, as it runs out of paint if it moves too far away from a painted rectangle.
Scoring[]
- Collecting a coconut or painting a segment: 10 points.
- Filling in a box with the paintbrush: The score in the center of the box - 100 to 700 points.
- Killing the Amidars and Tracer after filling in the corner boxes: 100 points, 200 points, 400 points, 800 points, 1,600 points, etc. 3,200 is the maximum on later levels (only in the Japanese version).
- Collecting the bonus banana on the interim level: 5,000 points.
Notes[]
- The Japanese version has a simpler attract mode and does not display the number of jumps left. Also, it features a higher scoring (20 points per coconut/segment).
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(Stern Electronics)
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Trivia[]
- The word "Amidar" comes from Amidakuji, a Japanese classic method of lottery that looks like ladders. It is designed to create random pairings of arbitrary numbers of two sets of start points and goals, each with an equal number of elements.
- Todd Lamb holds the official record of this game with 19,225,030 points.
External links[]
- Amidar [Model GX337] at Gaming History - Source of the Scoring list and Trivia.
- GameFAQs
- MobyGames