Chomp for Presentation Manager

Chomp for Presentation Manager © 1990 Neolithic Soft.

Chomp for Presentation Manager is a game closely patterned after Pac-Man, for the OS/2 Presentation Manager environment. It is a direct port of Xchomp, which was written for the X window system on a Sun workstation.

The object of the game, as in all arcade-style games, is to amass the highest possible score. You, the player, are the circular mouth moving around the maze. You are chased by four hungry ghosts who would like to eat you. The maze is filled with dots, all of which you must eat to finish each maze. You eat a dot simply by going over it, and this adds 10 points to your score. Allowing one of the ghosts to eat you costs you one life; you start each game with 3 lives.

You will also find several large flashing dots on each maze. These are the power dots. Eating one of these will add 50 points to your score and give you the temporary ability to eat the ghosts. When you have this power, the ghosts are transparent, they move at half-speed, and they try to run away from you. Eating a ghost adds a number of points to your score, and this number is momentarily displayed on the screen. The number of points you get increases with the number of ghosts you eat after eating one power dot. It is reset when you eat another power dot. When a ghost is eaten, it turns into a harmless pair of eyes which moves very quickly, seeking return to the ghost box in the center of the maze, where the ghost is reborn and goes back to chasing you around.

Each level in the game is identified by a symbol. The first few levels are fruit levels -- they are identified by little pictures of different fruits. Once in a while, the symbol corresponding to the current level shows up on the screen. Eating it adds a number of points to your score, and at some of the higher levels, this is a very significant number. However, you must move fast, because the symbols don't stay around for very long. The number of points you get for eating one is displayed on the screen.