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These are games where the player moves through a maze while attempting to reach the exit, sometimes having to avoid or fight enemies. Despite a 3D perspective, the mazes in most of these games have 2D layouts when viewed from above. Some first-person maze games follow the design of Pac-Man, but from the point of view of being in the maze.
3D Monster Maze is a 1981 survival horror game designed by Malcolm Evans and published by J. K. Greye Software for the ZX81. [1] Rendered using low-resolution character block "graphics", it was one of the first 3D games for a home computer, [2] and one of the first games incorporating typical elements of the genre that would later be termed survival horror.
Basic principle of a jump-scare in its early form as a jack-in-the-box.Illustration of the Harper's Weekly magazine from 1863. A jump scare (also written jump-scare and jumpscare) is a scaring technique used in media, particularly in films such as horror films and video games such as horror games, intended to scare the viewer by surprising them with a creepy face or object, usually accompanied ...
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Pages in category "Christmas video games" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The player moves downward through a continuously vertically-scrolling maze with vertical symmetry, trying to get as far as possible while avoiding enemies that move across the screen; if the player contacts a monster, they die and the game is over. The maze will continually scroll upwards on the screen, and while the player can move in any ...
Fitter, [4] known as Round-Up in the Americas, [2] is a maze-strategy arcade video game released by Taito in 1981. [3] The game was released as Fitter in Japan in October 1981 [2] and in Europe the same year. [1] Another Japanese company, Hiraoka, licensed a version called Round-Up to Centuri for release in the Americas in December 1981. [3]
Wayout is a 3D first-person perspective video game programmed by Paul Allen Edelstein and published for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1982. It was released for the Apple II and Commodore 64 in 1983. Wayout is among the first maze games to offer full 360 degree 3D perspective and movement, and its graphics were considered state-of-the-art upon ...