Crazy Chewy arcade game?
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2013 8:20 am
By chance, I stumbled across this entry in the International Arcade Museum (a.k.a. KLOV):
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detai ... me_id=7425
What is known about this game? There are several sites referring to it, but most of them contain zero information. I noticed MADrigal has released a simulator of the tabletop game Crazy Chewy, part of VTech's series Electronic Tiny-Arcade, but surely the site above could not have mixed up a tabletop game with a upright arcade game?
Is Crazy Pucker the original title, followed by Crazy Chewy and Crazy Moonie (?) before they reversed the gameplay and changed graphics to become the Creativision game Crazy Chicky? If the year 1980 is accurate, wouldn't it slightly predate the Creativision and thus seem like VTech already tried to circumvent trademarks by giving it a name that doesn't resemble Pac or Puck? I suppose technically it would be fully possible to put together a Creativision compatible system already in 1979/80: the 6502, VDP and PSG were all invented, although perhaps TI didn't yet sell the two latter to third party hardware manufacturers in any greater scale.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detai ... me_id=7425
What is known about this game? There are several sites referring to it, but most of them contain zero information. I noticed MADrigal has released a simulator of the tabletop game Crazy Chewy, part of VTech's series Electronic Tiny-Arcade, but surely the site above could not have mixed up a tabletop game with a upright arcade game?
Is Crazy Pucker the original title, followed by Crazy Chewy and Crazy Moonie (?) before they reversed the gameplay and changed graphics to become the Creativision game Crazy Chicky? If the year 1980 is accurate, wouldn't it slightly predate the Creativision and thus seem like VTech already tried to circumvent trademarks by giving it a name that doesn't resemble Pac or Puck? I suppose technically it would be fully possible to put together a Creativision compatible system already in 1979/80: the 6502, VDP and PSG were all invented, although perhaps TI didn't yet sell the two latter to third party hardware manufacturers in any greater scale.