Escape from the Mindmaster

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Escape from the Mindmaster is a 1982 maze video game developed and published by Starpath. The game was designed by Dennis Caswell. The game features the a first-person perspective as the navigate six mazes. The player must search the mazes avoiding the wandering creature the Alien Invader and the moving barriers. Their goal is to escape each of the six mazes by finding the differently shaped puzzle pegs and place them in their corresponding slots in as fast as time as possible. The game was designed for the Atari 2600 video game console and is played through the Starpath Supercharger add-on. The hardware increased the potential memory for games for the system. Caswell said he did not recall how he came up with the idea for the Escape from the Mindmaster, but said that he wanted to make a game without any shooting gameplay mechanics and that programming the visuals were particularly difficult. Reviews from video game magazines such as Electronic Fun with Computers & Games, JoyStik and Video Games praised the graphics in the game. While some reviews complimented it as an original maze game, others publications such as Videogaming and Computer Gaming Illustrated and JoyStik said the controls were difficult to learn and the game may not hold the attention of players looking for more action-oriented gameplay respectively. The game would appear in year-end best-of lists from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Radio-Electronics. It would later appears in best video games of all time lists from Electronic Fun with Computers & Games in 1984 and Flux in 1995.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

January 1, 1982

Genres

adventure video game

Platforms

Atari 2600

Created by

Starpath

Countries

United States