Anteater (video game)

Anteater
Developer(s)Stern Electronics
Publisher(s)Tago Electronics
Designer(s)Chris Oberth[1]
Platform(s)Arcade
Release1982[1]
Genre(s)Maze
Mode(s)1-2 players alternating turns

Anteater (The Anteater in Britain, Ameisenbär in Germany) is an arcade video game designed by Chris Oberth and released in 1982 by Tago Electronics.[2] The player steers the tongue of the eponymous creature through a maze, retracting it when dangers approach. Though the arcade game was not a hit, it spawned a number of direct clones for home computers; Sierra's Oils Well became better known than the original. Oberth wrote an Apple II version of his own game for Datamost using a different title.

  1. ^ a b Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
  2. ^ Anteater at Arcade History