Maziacs is an action adventure maze game published by DK'Tronics in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum,[2] Commodore 64,[3] and MSX.
[4] Maziacs, written by Don Priestley, was based on his earlier ZX81 game Mazogs[5] which was published by Bug-Byte in 1982.
[6] Mazogs was one of the most successful ZX81 games[5] so Don Priestley adapted it for the higher-resolution, colour-screen ZX Spectrum and MSX.
[3] Maziacs takes place in a randomly generated, scrolling, overhead-view maze, in which the player-controlled protagonist must find gold and exit the level.
[7] In a retrospective later in the year, CRASH criticized the slightly unresponsive keyboard controls and felt it was less addictive, but continued to praise the animation techniques.