Amidar

Time to beat

Main story

22 h10 reports

Main + extras

32.5 h7 reports

Completionist

62.5 h5 reports

Median of the hours reported by players who completed the game.

Synopsis

Amidar is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Konami for arcades. It was released in North America by Stern. Parker Brothers published an Atari 2600 version in late 1982, and Casio released a port for the PV-1000 in 1983. Amidar was the first in the grid capture sub-genre of maze games and was highly cloned in arcades and for home systems. The player moves around a fixed rectilinear lattice, changing the color of the lines, while avoiding enemies. Coloring all the lines around a rectangle fills it in. When all the rectangles have been filled, the player moves to the next level. There are two types of levels which alternate, with the player controlling a paint roller in one and a gorilla in the other. The game and its name have their roots in the Japanese lot drawing game Amidakuji. The bonus level in Amidar is a nearly exact replication of an Amidakuji game and the way the enemies move conform to the Amidakuji rules; this is referred to in the attract mode as "Amidar movement".

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

January 1, 1981

Genres

maze video game

Platforms

Atari 2600

Created by

Konami

Countries

Japan