Brush Roller

Brush Roller
Brush Roller's Title Screen
Developer	Hwang Shinwei
Console	Famicom
Date	1990
Engine	Unknown
Sound engine	Hwang Shinwei
Alternate names/hacks	Bookyman

Brush Roller is a clone of Make Trax (an arcade game by Kural Samno in 1981) made by Hwang Shinwei in 1990. This game can often be found on multicarts.

Overview

Brush Roller's gameplay

The player starts with 9 lives in this version, as opposed to the 3 that there were in Make Trax. 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 in this awards how many points the player currently has collected on the current level +1. (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 timer in this version which the original game didn't have, starting at 200 seconds. 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 Mega Soft 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 sound effects, the Asder version doesn't despite having been released a year later. It was also reused in a 50-in-1 by Manley Toys Ltd. in 2000.

Trivia

• The enemy that leaves footprints in the first level was reused as the main character's sprite in Frog River.
• Brush Roller is also playable on the Super 57K clone.