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Any user can pick any arcade game to be the Arcade Game of the Day. Please include a few lines of text and a picture, if available.
Today's Arcade Game of the Day is...
Streaking (1980)
Shoei's Streaking may seem like a joke made by ROM hackers, but it is actually a real game from 1980. Streaking is a comical parody of Pac-Man that replaces Pac-Man with a streaking woman, and the ghosts with cops chasing you down, but also adds its own twists and mechanics to the familiar Pac-Man gameplay. Your fatigue level will grow, slowing you down. To gain energy, you must eat the dots on the screen. If you go too long without eating dots, you will slow down significantly and the cops will catch you. If your fatigue bar reaches full, you will lose. You may also collect items of clothing for points. The woman will wear this clothing throughout the entire rest of the game. You collect more clothing as you go along. Your character moves slower than Pac-Man and waves her arms spastically as she moves along the maze. There are also four large dots on the edges of the maze that will transport you to the opposite diagonal edge of the maze. Each of these dots can only be used once per level. Streaking never gained any real popularity in the arcades and was only released in Japan, but has gained a new audience on MAME.
(A new Arcade Game of the Day will be posted every day. Please only post ONE game per day. Again, any user can post the Arcade Game of the Day, as long as someone else hasn't already posted it.)
So... feel free to post a new Arcade Game of the Day TOMORROW. Today, discuss Streaking.
Today's Arcade Game of the Day is...
Streaking (1980)
Shoei's Streaking may seem like a joke made by ROM hackers, but it is actually a real game from 1980. Streaking is a comical parody of Pac-Man that replaces Pac-Man with a streaking woman, and the ghosts with cops chasing you down, but also adds its own twists and mechanics to the familiar Pac-Man gameplay. Your fatigue level will grow, slowing you down. To gain energy, you must eat the dots on the screen. If you go too long without eating dots, you will slow down significantly and the cops will catch you. If your fatigue bar reaches full, you will lose. You may also collect items of clothing for points. The woman will wear this clothing throughout the entire rest of the game. You collect more clothing as you go along. Your character moves slower than Pac-Man and waves her arms spastically as she moves along the maze. There are also four large dots on the edges of the maze that will transport you to the opposite diagonal edge of the maze. Each of these dots can only be used once per level. Streaking never gained any real popularity in the arcades and was only released in Japan, but has gained a new audience on MAME.
(A new Arcade Game of the Day will be posted every day. Please only post ONE game per day. Again, any user can post the Arcade Game of the Day, as long as someone else hasn't already posted it.)
So... feel free to post a new Arcade Game of the Day TOMORROW. Today, discuss Streaking.