CAP-Man

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CAP-Man is a Video game created in 1979 by the originator Toru Iwatani for the Japanese company Namco. The goal of the play is to move CAP-Man , a character in form of Camembert, inside a Labyrinthe, and to make him collect all the CAP-gums which are there while avoiding being touched by Fantôme S.

Description

CAP-Man, character emblematic of the play, is a character in the yellow shape of round equipped with a mouth. It must eat CAP-gums and no-claims bonus (in the form of fruits, and of a key with 5 000 points) in a labyrinth haunted by four phantoms. Four special CAP-gums make the phantoms vulnerable for one short period during which CAP-Man can eat them. The original play includes/understands 255 different labyrinths (the play was regarded as energy ad infinitum, but the screen was scrambled as of the 256ère level).

Here a table indicating the various fruits, their value and the levels where one can find them:

If the player exceeds the 10.000 points, it obtains a free life.

Career

This play left in the rooms arcade to the autumn 1979 to the Japan under the title Puck Man , derived from Japanese “pakupaku” which indicates the action to open and close again the mouth. He is an immediate success and is marketed in 1980 with the the United States and in the rest of the world. Its non-violent aspect would have been at the origin of its success near the young girls and the young boys.

The name change of Puck-man to CAP-Man gives the required to prevent that the small comic ones scrape the jamb of P to make a F of it, which would have constituted an obscenity relatively badly seen in the rooms of arcade, mainly attended by young people.

CAP-Man was adapted thereafter on a plethora of game consoles, inter alia: Atari, Intellivision, Gameboy (Nintendo), BORN (Nintendo), Range GEAR (Sega), Playstation (Sony), N64 (Nintendo). It is probably one of the most known plays in the world, with Tetris, Pong, Bubble Bobble or Mario. He was the hero of a Cartoon.

The play CAP-Man is also available on XBox Live Arcade on XBox 360 and on Virtual Console on Wii

Characters

In the play, the phantoms are presented with, on the left, the " vrai" name and on the right their nickname.

Bashful ( Timid ) - Inky (also named Inkey ), it acts of the blue phantom.
Speedy ( Fast ) - Pinky is the pink phantom.
Shadow ( Sinks ) - Blinky, the red phantom; according to the animated series, it is most malicious of the band.
Pokey ( Limited ) - Clyde, the orange phantom; in the cartoon it is the phantom more the mild nutter of the group.

The adaptation in cartoon revealed additional characters:

Miss Sue is a fantômette of Violette color.
the Malicious toaster would be the Master of the phantoms. He carries a mask whose form points out the name which was allotted to him.

Data sheet

Microprocessor: Z80.
Sound: Namco 3-Chanel PSG.

Displacements of the phantoms (Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde) are deterministic, it does not have there chance in the algorithm choosing their way.

Clones

There exist also clones of the CAP-Man , most known being Guppy left on EXL 100 (Exelvision) with a fish and octopuses. Another clone was Clean Sweep on the console Vectrex where the CAP-Man is represented by a vacuum cleaner charged to recover the coins of a bank, which causes to make it grow bigger and slow down and which obliges it with regularly joining the center of the bank to empty the contents of its harvest.

Records

The world champion is Billy Mitchell, American who carried out a score of 3.333.360 in 1999. He made this score in 6 hours by catching all the fruits of each level, eating the 4 phantoms with each no-claims bonus, and by not losing any life. With this occasion the world discovered that the play finished after the 256e level.

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