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1982 · Yahoo Software · Maze · Text adventure

CatChum

1982 video game

Released
1982
Platforms
Kaypro
Genres
MazeText adventure
Developers
Yahoo Software
Publishers
Kaypro
Modes
Single-player
Country
United States

About

CatChum is a text-only clone of Pac-Man written for the CP/M operating system and made to be operated on the early Kaypro line of luggable computers.

CatChum was made within the limitations of Kaypro's early text-only computers. As a result, the maze is made from a series of dashes and other punctuation marks. The Pac-Man character is a letter C, which goes from upper to lower case intermittently (to simulate a chomping Pac-Man). The four ghosts are capital As (which turn to lowercase ms when the CatChum Pac-Man chomps a power-pellet, capital Ms when the effect is about to end), and the "fruits" are represented by dollar signs.

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