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[Ice Cream Jonsey]

How did Maze Craze work, given the hardware limitations of the 2600? Assuming that the maze was the 'playfield' object, which ordinarily has bilateral symmetry on the 2600. Was it altering the bitmap while it was being drawn?

I did a search but couldn't find a discussion on how Maze Craze came to be... curious if anyone has ever heard it discussed or has any insight.

[Wickeycolumbus]

Ice Cream Jonsey, on Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:11 PM, said:

How did Maze Craze work, given the hardware limitations of the 2600? Assuming that the maze was the 'playfield' object, which ordinarily has bilateral symmetry on the 2600. Was it altering the bitmap while it was being drawn?

Yeah, many games do it Nothing really ground breaking about it, you could argue Combat and Video Olympics use the same 'trick' to display the score.

[Nukey Shay]

Maze Craze may have been first to use the "every other bit" technique tho...which maps twice as much screen data to ram.