Trog (video game)
1990 Maze arcade game from Midway, later ported to NES and DOS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Trog is a maze arcade video game developed and published by Midway Manufacturing in 1990 in North America under the "Bally/Midway" label and later by Williams Electronics in Europe. In the game, players control one of four dinosaurs chased by the titular cavemen. Its gameplay includes elements of Pac-Man—collect all items in a maze, eat a special item to turn the tables on pursuers—but supports up to four players at once. Initially envisioned as a hybrid puzzle/strategy project, its original concept was later reworked into a Pac-Man-like title after poor reception from testers and features claymation graphics, advertised as "Playmation" by Midway. Conversions for the Nintendo Entertainment System and MS-DOS were released by Acclaim Entertainment in 1990 and 1991 respectively, reducing the number of simultaneous players to two. Both the arcade and NES versions garnered positive reception from critics.
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Developer(s) | Midway |
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Designer(s) | George N. Petro |
Programmer(s) | Kurt Mahan |
Artist(s) | Jack E. Haeger |
Composer(s) | Chris Granner |
Platform(s) | Arcade, MS-DOS, NES |
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Genre(s) | Maze |
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Arcade system | Midway Y Unit[1] |