''Guzzler'' is a maze video game developed and manufactured by

Tehkan , was a Japanese video game corporation founded in 1967. It had its headquarters in Kudankita, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Its subsidiary, Tecmo Inc, was located in Torrance, California. Tecmo was formerly known as Tehkan. Tecmo is known for the ''Captain ...

and licensed to

Centuri Centuri, formerly known as Allied Leisure, was an American arcade game manufacturer. They were based in Hialeah, Florida, and were one of the top six suppliers of coin-operated arcade video game machinery in the United States during the early 19 ...

for US distribution in 1983. It was released as an arcade conversion kit, including a new marquee and control panel, then ported to the

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console. In ''Guzzler'', the player controls a creature who can drink (or

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) water from puddles, then extinguish

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s and

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s spawned from those fires.

Gameplay

Each level is a

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of varying openness. Colorful fire. that must be extinguished to complete the level, also spawn fire-themed monsters which pursue the player. The main character can attack with three blasts of

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before becoming empty. With each blast of liquid, the character moves faster and gets closer to being an empty outline with

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s. When empty the character is a shell of a sprite, but moves faster. Liquid is replenished by drinking from puddles. Occasionally, an alcoholic beverage appears in the center of the screen. Picking it up causes the character to refill and the fires temporarily freeze.

Reception

William Michael Brown wrote in the ''

Electronic Fun with Computers & Games ''Electronic Fun with Computers & Games'' was a video game magazine published in the United States from November 1982 to May 1984. For the last two issues it was renamed ''ComputerFun''. Content The magazine was split up into the following sect ...

'' 1983 coin-op preview: "Of all the brand new onversionkit titles that we saw, probably the best is Centuri's ''Guzzler''."

References

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* 1983 video games Arcade video games Maze games Nintendo Switch games PlayStation 4 games SG-1000 games Tecmo games Video games developed in Japan {{maze-videogame-stub Hamster Corporation games