Amidar

As in Pac-Man, the player is opposed by enemies who kill on contact. The enemies gradually expand in number as the player progresses from one level to the next, and their speed also increases. On odd-numbered levels, the player controls an ape (in some versions labeled "Copier") and must collect coconuts while avoiding headhunters (labeled "Police" and "Thief"). On even-numbered levels, the player controls a paint roller (labeled "Rustler") and must paint over each spot of the board while avoiding pigs (labeled "Cattle" and "Thief"). Each level is followed by a short bonus stage.

Whenever a rectangular portion of the board is cleared (either by collecting all surrounding coconuts, or painting all surrounding edges), the rectangle is colored in; on the even levels, bonus points are awarded while on the odd levels, the player collects points for each coconut eaten. When the player clears all four corners of the board, he is briefly empowered to kill the enemies by touching them (just as when Pac-Man uses a "power pill"). Enemies killed in this way fall to the bottom of the screen and revitalise themselves after a few moments.

Numerous clones and spins on Amidar have been written. Time Runner is an Amidar-like game for the TRS-80, Atari 8-bit computers, and C64. Kid Grid and Jeepers Creepers were published for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1982. Spiderdroid is a reskinning of the Atari 2600 version of Amidar published in 1987 by Froggo. Omidar was published by Profiteam/M&T for the C64 in 1987.

Rollo and the Brush Bros. is a clone of Amidar published by Windmill software in 1984 as a self-booting disk for the IBM PC. The player controls "Rollo" while attempting to paint the entire maze and avoiding the "Brush Brothers".