Barricade

a.k.a. Brickyard

published by Ramtek / Elcon Industries in 1977-02, developed by Ramtek, running on Arcade
type: action/reflex
genre: Arcade, Snake
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: shared-screen
languages: eng
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Description

Barricade is an early example of a light cycle game for arcades. Barricade is intended for either two or four players. Each player controls an ever growing wall made up of individual small squares. These walls are growing on a fixed playfield of limited size, therefore room will eventually run out for these growing walls. So the goal of the game is to win a round by forcing the other players wall to collide into themselves or another barrier.

The operator of the arcade machine can set the number of rounds it takes to win (from one to seven) and set how fast or slow the speed at which the walls grow (there are seven different speed options).

Originally known as "Barricade", the game was a clone of Gremlin's popular "Blockade". After Gremlin took Ramtek to court, they agreed to rename the game Brickyard, which was a lot less similar to "Blockade".


https://www.mobygames.com/game/80351/barricade/
https://www.arcade-history.com/?n=brickyard&page=detail&id=339

Becoro # 2023-11-17 06:44:39

Technical specs

software: Emulated on MAME,
display: raster

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