When did the first Amidar game come out?
Amidar is a video game developed by Konami and released in arcades in 1981 by Stern. The format is similar to that of Pac-Man: the player moves around a fixed rectilinear lattice, attempting to visit each location on the board while avoiding the enemies.
Where did Pierre Omidyar get his start in business?
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What’s the world record for an Amidar ROM?
There are two ROM sets for Amidar: a harder version distributed by Stern and an easier set created by Konami. According to Twin Galaxies, Scott Karasek, of Racine, Wisconsin, USA, scored a world record 3,208,870 points on the Stern ROM set on June 22, 1982.
Is there an arcade version of Amidar called Spiderdroid?
Spiderdroid is a reskinning of the Atari 2600 version of Amidar published in 1987 by Froggo. Omidar was published by Profiteam/M for the C64 in 1987. The arcade game Pepper II has a grid spread across four screens, while the grid in Triple Punch is wider than the screen and scrolls horizontally.
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Who is the world record holder for Amidar?
The word Amidar comes from Amidakuji, a Japanese classic method of lottery that looks like ladders. It is designed to create random pairings of arbitrary numbers of two sets of start points and goals, each with an equal number of elements. Todd Lamb holds the official record for this game with 19,225,030 points.
What kind of arcade game is Amidar Mame?
Amidar is an abstract arcade game in which players must ‘colour in’ all of the rectangles on the screen.