Maze game

Maze game is a video game genre. These games involve a player navigating a maze. Some of these games, also called maze chase games, involve navigating a maze while under pursuit from other characters moving through the same maze. While the term first appeared in 1980, some of the earliest video games involved navigating a maze, such as Mouse in the Maze created in the 1950s. While some writers such as Mark J. Wolf described games like Pac-Man (1980) as combining maze games with "collecting" and "escaping" gameplay styles, Allison Gizzard suggested Wolf's definition made the maze its own non-entity as a genre and more of an element of other gameplay styles.