Lock'n'Chase

Arcade Video game published 44 years ago:

Lock'n'Chase (c) 1981 Data East.

Originally released as "Lock'n'Chase [Model DT-111]".

The game is a maze game. Like "Pac-Man", you're trying to eat up dots while four cops (with the names Spiffy, Smarty, Scaredy and Silly) try to stop you. While you don't have energizers to eat the cops with, you CAN block them off with walls (or better yet, try to trap them in the corners). When you're finished eating dots, there are two exits for you to escape from the cops.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 500 Khz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Lock'n'Chase was released in April 1981.

The music at the beginning of the game is the beginning of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D major BWV 1050 - 1. Allegro.

Jerry Nickerson holds the official record for this game with 78180 points.

- SCORING -

Dot : 20 points
Hat : 200 points
Crown : 300 points
Suitcase : 500 points
Telephone : 100 points
Watch : 800 points
Camera : 1000 points
Sunglasses: 2000 points
Flashlight : 400 points
Key : 3000 points
Heart : 5000 points
Money bags : 500, 1000, 2000, 4000 points
Trap 1 Cop : 100 points
Trap 2 Cops : 300 points
Trap 3 Cops : 1000 points
Trap 4 Cops : 2000 points

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[US] Atari 2600 (1982)
[EU] [AU] Nintendo Game Boy (1990)
[JP] Nintendo Game Boy (may.11, 1990) "Lock n' Chase [Model DMG-LCA]"
[JP] Nintendo 3DS [Virtual Console] (nov.2, 2011): Game Boy version.
[EU] [AU] Nintendo 3DS [Virtual Console] (dec.1, 2011): Game Boy version.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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