Talbot

Arcade Video game published 43 years ago:

Talbot (c) 1982 Volt Electronics.

The player controls a peasant with a red pointed hat, he is a rabbit breeder and accompanied with his loyal hunting dog talbot breed, must recapture all the rabbits that have escaped and are running around the maze field.

You must prevent the thieves with sunglasses, steal your rabbits while you avoid his attacks, it is a race against time, as you progress through the maze field you must find some food like milk to replenish your energy and give orders to your dog to put traps along the way to stop the sneaky thieves and also catch the rabbits more easy and bring them to the cage again, to go to the next round. With each round changes the maze pattern.

While more rabbits you catch more points you earn and you win the game, if the enemies catch more rabbits, you lose the game!

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz), ALPHA-8201 (@ 384 Khz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.536 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in August 1982.

The talbot was a white hunting dog which is now extinct because of its lack of purpose and need for constant care, but it has been credited with being an ancestor of the modern beagle and bloodhound. The term talbot is used in heraldry to refer to a good-mannered hunting dog.

- STAFF -

Developed by Alpha Denshi and licensed to Volt Elec.

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