Obake: A New Ghost Chase for the Einstein

You are a ghost, the screen is covered in fruit, and the clock is running. Eat the lot before time runs out, and do not let the other ghosts catch you.

Obake is a new game for the Tatung Einstein by Andrés, who publishes as Andrs Soft, and it is free to download from the library or play in your browser today.

From a 1986 Magazine to the Einstein

The game started life as an MSX-BASIC listing by Kazuhisa Yoneyama, published in MSX Magazine in 1986. Andrés liked it enough to rebuild it, first in MSX-BASIC as Obake 2 and then with CVBasic, a BASIC compiler that can build the same program for the MSX, the ColecoVision, the Einstein and several other machines that share their video chip. On itch.io it is a paid download, and he has kindly let us host the Einstein version for free.

Tested on the TC-01

We played it with Andrés before release. The TC-01 has no frame interrupt, which the game needed to allow for; he checked the fix we sent him, made the same change wherever else it was needed, and added keyboard control while he was at it. The disc boots straight into the game: move with the cursor keys, and pause with F1 or BREAK.

He has also made an Einstein version of his keyboard tester, and the rest of his games are on his itch.io page. Thank you, Andrés.