Brush Roller is a Famicom/NES game developed by Hwang Shinwei in 1990. It is a clone of Crush Roller (also known as Make Trax), an arcade game originally developed by Alpha Denshi in 1981. This game can often be found on multicarts and was sold in Brazil as a stand-alone cart by CCE.
Overview[]
Brush Roller's gameplay.
The player starts with 9 lives in this version, as opposed to the 3 that there were in Crush Roller. The scoring system in this game works differently, in that no points are awarded for painting over the road and that running over a fish awards one point more than the points the player currently has on the current level. (e.g. if the player has 7 points when they run over a fish they will get 8 points for doing so) There is a 200 second timer in this version which the original game did not have. The graphics are mostly the same, although the title screen is completely different and the enemies that leave footprints look different in this game. The music is reused from Magic Jewelry.
This game was later hacked by NTDEC to make Bookyman, which was released on the Caltron 6-in-1 and the Asder 20-in-1. It replaces the title screen, some of the graphics and the sound. Strangely, while the Caltron version replaces the music and most of the sound effects, the Asder version does not despite having been released a year later; this was possibly done to save space, as the Caltron version is 16kB larger than the original Brush Roller.
Trivia[]
- The enemy that leaves footprints in the first level was reused as the main character's sprite in Frog River.
- The main theme of the music, All Kinds Of Everything, by Dana Rosemary Scallon; as well as reused in Magic Jewelry and 3D Block for Famicom / NES.
- Several hacks and clones of Brush Roller were produced for Famiclone-based plug & play systems in the 2000s and 2010s, presumably without involvement of Shinwei. These include Flee From Home and Monster Dash from Inventor, Pengoo and Pro Sweeper by Cube Technology, and Paint Quest and Paint Master by JungleTac.
- Cube Technology would also distribute a largely-unhacked version of Brush Roller with the text on the title screen removed on plug & play consoles, generally referred to as "Brush Roll 2" in the game selection menus. Some versions have BRUSH wrote under the character.
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