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Cameltry is an arcade game developed and released by Taito in 1989. In the game, the player must move a marble through a maze by using analog controls to rotate the maze itself around the marble. The game got a home port for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1992 with the release of the game on the US and Europe being named On the Ball. The SNES version was compatible with the SNES Mouse peripheral, one of the few games overseas to do so.

In addition, the game received a sequel called Labyrinth for the Nintendo DS and it was ported to the Taito Memories collection for modern systems (although it wasn't included in the Taito Legends international release). There was a further follow up for iOS, titled CAMELTRY The Labyrinth of Enigma, released in 2009.


Tropes featured in the game:

  • Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Some of the stages have multicolored backgrounds.
  • Artistic License – Physics: Averted. The game's central mechanic is to twist a maze so that a marble can fall through it. The marble can be stopped in place by obstacles, can be bounced into certain objects off of others, and the marble must sometimes be used to bust through wood blocks.
  • Button Mashing: In Labyrinth, players must tap the action button on a certain rhythm to create an aura that destroys certain kinds of blocks.
  • Company Cross References: In the arcade version, you can replace the marble with sprites of characters and items from other Taito games.
  • Minimalism: You guide a small blue marble through a maze made of very basic looking wood and stone blocks and with very basic and random backgrounds with every course. Even the music is very quiet and functions more as ambience, but does set the mood for the type of course.
  • Songs in the Key of Panic: When the player's time on a level runs low (20 seconds or less), a small and hectic sounding stinger plays.
  • Space Zone: Some of the levels have outer space backgrounds.
  • Timed Mission: The game's levels are timed, and so is the game's menu.

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