Supermampfer

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Supermampfer
Original title KC Munchkin!
Studio Philips , Magnavox
Publisher Philips, Magnavox
Senior Developer Ed Averett
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 1981
platform Philips G7000 , Philips G7400 , Philips VG5000
genre Maze
Game mode Single player
control Joystick , keyboard
medium Cartridge , cassette
language English

Supermampfer (English original title: KC Munchkin! ) Is a maze computer game , which was released from 1981 for various Philips game consoles .

Gameplay

This game is about using your character to eat up all your opponents and pills ("munchies"). With each devoured Munchie, the game gets faster. When a labyrinth is empty, a new level begins . This continues until you have used up all your lives, after which you enter yourself in the highscore table . The game can theoretically be played indefinitely.

With this, it can be viewed as a remote copy of Namco's Pac-Man . However, there are significantly fewer points to "eat" and the labyrinth is structured differently. The opponents also have no names and are only represented by three, but can be made harmless for a short time if you pick up a flashing Munchie. There is also a level editor , but the data cannot be saved.

development

The game was programmed and released in 1981, a year before Atari could come up with a finished implementation of Pac-Man . Since Magnavox and Philips had no rights to port Pac-Man (these were at the time at Atari), the lead developer Ed Averett was instructed to create the game as a so-called " clone " that was as close as possible to each other based on the original without violating its rights. The game was in English-speaking countries after the then president of Magnavox, K enneth C . M einken Jr. , named. In Germany, the game was launched with a translated name. Like all other games for the Philips G7000, the game has been numbered, in this case the number 38.

reception

Supermampfer is considered to be one of the most famous and perhaps the best games for the Philips G7000.

Atari sued Magnavox because it saw its rights violated. However, the competent US district court was not initially convinced to impose a sales ban. However, the appeal process went out in favor of Atari. Then supermampfer had to be taken off the market. The successor, KC's Krazy Chase! , was brought onto the market in 1982, modified accordingly. This made Supermampfer one of the first video games to be the subject of legal proceedings.

There is now an unofficial implementation for the Atari 7800 and the Philips G7400.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ed Averett. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Philips: KC Munchkin (1982) (Philips) (US). 1982, Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b K.C. Munchkin! for Odyssey 2 (1981) Trivia. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Michael Heßburg: Philips G7000: The video game with the supermampfer . In: Spiegel Online . December 4, 2009 ( spiegel.de [accessed April 28, 2019]).
  5. ↑ The system of unlimited possibilities. Retrieved April 28, 2019 .