5-440: Triple Punch (also sold as Knock Out!! ) is a horizontally-scrolling grid capture game released in arcades by K.K. International (K.K.I.) in 1982. The goal is to color all of the lines on a grid while avoiding or punching pursuers. It was sold both as a conversion kit and as an upright cabinet. The player controls a character referred to as a carpenter who resembles Mario from the original Donkey Kong . Much like Amidar ,
10-683: A separate section. 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1999 2003 2008 2009 2014 Differentiated from more diversified first-person party-based RPGs , dungeon crawlers , first-person shooters , and walking sims by their primary emphasis on navigation of largely abstracted maze environments often with little to no texture mapping or in-game objects and props. 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1991 1993 1994 1995 1996 1998 2001 2017 This subgenre
15-412: Is always deadly. This arcade game -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . List of maze video games#Grid capture games Maze game is a video game genre description first used by journalists during the 1980s to describe any game in which the entire playing field is a maze . Quick player action is required to escape monsters, outrace an opponent, or navigate
20-422: The maze within a time limit. After the release of Namco's Pac-Man in 1980, many maze games followed its conventions of completing a level by traversing all paths and a way of temporarily turning the tables on pursuers. While the character in a maze would have a limited view, the player is able to see much or all of the maze. Maze chase games are a specific subset of the overheard perspective. They're listed in
25-579: The objective is to color the lines around all the rectangles, except in Triple Punch the game board is larger than the screen and scrolls horizontally. Completing multiple rectangles at the same time doubles or triples the bonus. Four enemies chase the player: an eraser , a ghost ("Ottobake"), a gorilla ("Gorigon"), and a fire . The eraser removes already painted lines. The eraser, ghost, and gorilla can be knocked out with three punches in rapid succession, then an ambulance takes them away. The fire
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