Flicky

Sega · 1984

Yuji Naka's first hit, three years before Sonic. Flicky is a blue bird who has to gather the chirps scattered through a block of flats and shepherd them to the exit; they follow her in a line, and the line breaks the moment a cat or a lizard touches it. Getting them all out in one long tail is worth far more than ferrying them one by one, which is the whole game in a sentence.

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Format

Cartridge

Platform

Sega SG-1000 / SC-3000

Product code

G-1036

Publisher

Sega

Year

1984

Hardware

32K ROM + 2K RAM

Loads straight into SE3K, an emulator of the real hardware: Z80 CPU, TMS9918A video and SN76489 sound, with the CRT picture reproduced by the shaders. Nothing to install.

Elsewhere

• The coin-op it came from — Sega, 1984 Museum of the Game
• Original arcade flyer The Arcade Flyer Archive