Ports and Clones
A simplified version of Amidar was released in 1982 for the Atari 2600 by Parker Brothers. This was the only official port but as with most arcade games of the time, there were many unofficial clones for home computers including Acornsoft's Crazy Tracer (BBC Micro, Acorn Electron), Microdeal's Cuthbert Goes Walkabout (Dragon 32/64, TRS-80 CoCo, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family), Llamasoft's Traxx (Vic-20, ZX Spectrum), Superior Software's Crazy Painter (BBC Micro) and Gapper and Rollo And The Brush Bros (DOS). Gakken made a table top hand held game of Amidar in 1982. It was one of a series of 3 flip-top games with VFD screen and magnifying Fresnel lens. The other two similar style Gakken hand held games were Jungler and Dig Dug. In 2010 Kenneth Dyrlund made a clone of Amidar located af http://www.kenneth-dyrlund.dk/musik/amidar1-b.html
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