Round-Up
Known as Round-Up in the Americas, is a maze strategy arcade video game released by Taito in 1981. The game was released as Fitter in Japan in October 1981 and in Europe the same year. Another Japanese company, Hiraoka, licensed a version called Round-Up to Centuri for release in the Americas in December 1981.
Also recorded as Fitter
Round-Up
- Date
- 1981
- Publisher
- Centuri · Taito
- Genre
- maze video game
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Key facts
• Title — Fitter / Round-Up • Developer — * Taito (Fitter) • Hiraoka (Round-Up) • Platforms — Arcade • Genre — Maze, strategy • Modes — Single-player, multiplayer
Gameplay
Gameplay
The object of the game is for the player to maneuver a white robot within a maze, capture a red character robot as they move about the maze, and race to the center to change the 9 white balls located there to red. The player may only change one white ball to red at a time after capturing a red robot, and must evade 4 chaser monsters in the process. Bonus points may be earned when capturing the elusive 'red king' that appears on the screen. Capturing him will momentarily immobilize the chasers. Play is over when the chasers have captured all of the player's robots. If the player is successful in changing all of the balls in the center to red, the pattern clears and then a new challenge is presented: a 3×3 or 4×4 tri-colored pattern will appear at the bottom of the screen and a slightly different tri-colored cube of corresponding size will appear at the center of the screen. The player may earn bonus points by moving the directional arrow and rearranging the colors of the cube at the center of the screen to match the sample pattern presented at the bottom of the screen. The player is given 90 seconds to rearrange the cube as many times as possible. Action returns to the maze whether the player wins or loses the cube challenge.
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1981
Round-Up published.
1981
Round-Up is recorded as published in 1981.
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Round-Up is associated with United States.
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Round-Up (video game), revision 1372820749 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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- 1.Akagi, Masumi. アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005). Amusement News Agency. 41–46 (42). 13 October 2006. 978-4990251215.
- 2.Cash Box Pub. Co. Centuri, Hiraoka Announce Licensing Agreement For 'Round-Up' Video Game. Cash Box. 39–41. 5 December 1981.
- 3.Video Game Flyers: Fitter, Taito (EU). The Arcade Flyer Archive.
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