Irritating Maze, The

Manufacturer: SNK/Saurus
Year: 1997
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Labyrinth/Maze
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Neo Geo MVS
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Roller: Optical (left, right only)
Buttons: 1 [View]
Pedals: 1

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

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Irritating Maze, The Description

Maneuver yourself through colorful and difficult mazes within a time limit. Do not touch the walls!

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Cabinet Information

The original dedicated cabinets for this game were quite elaborate

Conversion

The game runs on typical Neo Geo hardware, but cannot be converted to other Neo Geo games because of the special BIOS used for the trackball rod.

Game Play

The idea is simple: move through the mazes before time runs out. This is not as easy as it sounds, though. Except for Practice Mode, you cannot touch the walls. The maze is not stationary and moving obstacles such as windmills, moving walls, and even a railcar will try to block your every move. The maze is made even more Irritating by the air jets that will blast the player when they fail.

Miscellaneous

The game features the general advisory (not the parental advisory) warning that appears in all Gigapower Neo Geo games set in USA mode. People that have epileptic disorders and women that are pregnant are warned not to play this game during the intro (the air jets that follow player-errors are very startling).

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Uncommon - There are 15 known instances of Irritating Maze, The owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, It is an original dedicated machine., 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 12 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,113 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 7 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There is one VAPS member currently looking for Irritating Maze, The. There is one VAPS member looking for a Irritating Maze, The circuit board set.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Irritating Maze, The machine for sale. There is one VAPS member with an extra Irritating Maze, The circuit board for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Trivia

This is the first Neo Geo game that requires a trackball for player input. The game was based on a popular Japanese game show, called "Dengeki Iraira Bou", or "Electric Irritating Stick," where the point was to move a metal rod through a moving electrified maze for cash prizes. The MVS dedicated cabs added the addition of air jets that punished the player for their errors.

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