Snapper is a computer game written by Jonathan Griffiths for the BBC Micro and released as one of the launch titles for Acornsoft in 1982. Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Year 1982 ( MCMLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar) It was later released as one of the launch titles for the Acorn Electron in 1983. The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational/ Home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
The game is a faithful clone of the Namco arcade game Pac-Man. is an amusement company based in Japan, best known overseas for Video games development is an Arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution In development, the game was titled Puc Man (also the working title of the original Namco game) but the name was changed before release to avoid legal action. However, the initial release of the game was so close to Pac Man (including the design of the game's characters) that this version had to be withdrawn and re-released with the characters changed. The player's character became a round yellow face with very short legs wearing a green cowboy hat and the ghosts became skinny humanoid monsters. The cowboy hat is a defining piece of attire for Farm and Ranch workers in the western and southern United States, Canada and northern Mexico
As in Pac-Man, bonus items such as fruit would sometimes appear in the centre of the screen. The highest-scoring bonus item was an acorn, a reference to the publishers. The acorn is the nut of the Oak tree (genera Quercus, Lithocarpus and Cyclobalanopsis, in the
The game ran very smoothly, making it a popular release of the time. Some players regarded is as the best Pac-Man clone for home computer platforms available in the era. A speeded up clip can be found on this page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT1C8aYKYfY&watch_response. When Snapper was killed, he would shrink and turn into small lines pointing in all directions like when a monster died in Space Invaders.
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