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Make Trax

Release Date: 1981
Genre: Action
Style: Maze

Review: Overall

Williams Electronics' Make Trax was one of the few cutesy maze games of its era to differentiate itself from Pac-Man and countless bootleg clones. Players guide a paintbrush around a twisty maze (which one-ups the layout of Pac-Man by including an overpass and an underpass), trying to "paint" every corner and every lane of the entire maze with a solid color (green on the first level). Two fish follow the paintbrush, serving much the same purpose as Pac-Man's ghosts, except that Make Trax offers only one recourse again the fish: the overpass features a roller which can be used to squish the fish. From time to time, cats and mice will appear from the sides of the maze to leave their pawprints all over the player's handiwork, necessitating a repaint. Painting the entire maze advances the player to the next level, where it all happens again, only faster.

Though it achieved a bit of a cult status among some arcade-goers, Make Trax never quite reached the critical mass of other maze games at the time, and wasn't translated for any of the home video game consoles of that period. The closest there was to a home version of Make Trax was Activision's Steamroller for the Colecovision, and even that game was delayed, debuting years later at Classic Gaming Expo 2000 by its designer.

~ Earl Green, All Game Guide