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Illustration of Mega-Bug

Mega-Bug

Overview

Sneak through unique maze after maze gobbling white dots while being hunted by the Mega-Bugs. Their job is made easier because The Mouth you pilot leaves behind a trail of colored dots which they will follow relentlessly the moment they come upon it. This makes the maze's dead-ends truly treacherous. Your job is made harder by the size of the maze (20x20), which requires a magnifier over your location to show the action, effectively creating a blind spot at a radius of three dots around you. To succeed, you must watch not only where you're going, but scan each randomly generated maze to plan your route and avoid the Mega-Bugs. If you do succeed, you're rewarded with a new maze and an additional Mega-Bug hunting you. If you fail, the bugs dance gleefully and shout, "we gotcha!"

This ROM cartridge game was clearly inspired, but not limited, by Pac-Man.

The game was called Dung Beetles on the Atari 8-bit PC-6001, and Apple II computers, However, on the TRS-80 Coloor Computer, it was sold under the name Mega-Bug.

Developers
Datasoft
Genre
Action
Alternate Names
No information available
Wikipedia
No information available

Media

Box - 3D

Mega-Bug - Box - 3D - 531x562
North America -  531 x 562

Box - Front

Mega-Bug - Box - Front - 786x800
North America -  786 x 800

Cart - Back

Mega-Bug - Cart - Back - 1265x894
North America -  1265 x 894

Cart - Front

Mega-Bug - Cart - Front - 1265x894
North America -  1265 x 894

Clear Logo

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North America -  2337 x 287

Fanart - Box - Front

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North America -  680 x 680

Screenshot - Gameplay

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North America -  320 x 240