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Flip & Flop

Flip & Flop

Aka: Flip and Flop
Console: Arcade
TV Standard: Region Not Set
Developer(s): Exidy, First Star Software
Publisher(s): Exidy, Inc., First Star Software, Inc.
Release Date: 1984-10-01
Players: 4
Co-op: No
Type: Platform
Flip & Flop screenshot

Flip & Flop is a kind of Pac-Man in isometric graphics on platforms which are connected by ladders. The player controls alternately Flip, a kangaroo, who jumps around on the platforms and Mitch, an ape, who hangs along the platforms. A zoo-keeper tries to catch Flip, and Mitch is being chased by a net. There are sticky fields on which one may lure keeper and net, where they are caught for some seconds. If the player runs beyond the border, he falls off the playing field and loses a life. The goal is to pass all marked fields. Every five levels there is a short sequence with a small circus presentation. In Level 13, the maximum playing field size is reached, later fields must be uncovered twice, and even later there aren't any more sticky fields in the level.