''Marvin's Maze'' is a

maze game A maze is a path or collection of paths, typically from an entrance to a goal. The word is used to refer both to branching tour puzzles through which the solver must find a route, and to simpler non-branching ("unicursal") patterns that lea ...

released by

SNK is a Japanese video game hardware and software company. It is the successor to the company Shin Nihon Kikaku and presently owns the SNK video game brand and the Neo Geo video game platform. SNK's predecessor Shin Nihon Kikaku was founded in 1978 ...

for arcades in 1983.

Plot

Marvin's Maze is a

where the player fight against Robonoids while trying to clear the maze of dots. There are two ways to finish each rack: eating up all the dots, or destroying a certain number of Robonoids (listed at the bottom of the screen). Two ways to destroy the Robonoids: shoot them, or remove the ground from under them at certain points of the maze (the 'Trick').

Scoring

*1 Robonoid: 500 *2 Robonoids: 1500 *3 Robonoids: 3500 *4 Robonoids: 7500 *5 Robonoids: 15500 *Dot: 100 *Super Dot: 200 *Trick (remove ground from under Robonoid): 500 *Bonus at end of round: 500 X number of Robonoids destroyed

References

1983 video games Arcade video games Maze games SNK games SNK Playmore games PlayStation Network games Video games developed in Japan {{maze-videogame-stub