Caterpillar Pacman Hack

Arcade Video game published 39 years ago:



Caterpillar © 1981 Phi.



You are a little caterpillar, trying to eat enough to grow into a butterfly. Four spiders are crawling around, trying to catch you to eat. Keep running, and even you may live to eat spiders (thanks to energizers).



TECHNICAL

Main CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips: Namco (@ 96 Khz)



Screen orientation: Vertical

Video resolution: 224 x 288 pixels

Screen refresh: 60.61 Hz

Palettesize: 32



Players: 2

Control: Joystick 4-way

Buttons: 1



TRIVIA

This game is a hack of "Hangly Man", itself a "Pac-Man" hack. The four spiders are named Harry (red), Sabina (pink), Charlotte (cyan), and Webster (orange).



The second part of the first intermission shows the caterpillar having grown into a large butterfly as it chases a scared Harry off the screen.



SCORING

Dots: 20 points.

Energizers: 50 points.

Spiders: 225, 450, 900, 1800 points.

Cherry: 300 points.

Strawberry: 600 points.

Orange: 800 points.

Apple: 900 points.

Pineapple: 2000 points.

Galaxian: 4000 points.

Bell: 6000 points.

Key: 9000 points.



CONTRIBUTE

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