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Graphics: 4 Sound: 3 Replay Value: 2 Notes: 1- or 2-player game; requires ECS Screen Shots

Scooby Doo's Maze Chase is a visually appealing game, but that's about it. Perhaps I just haven't played it enough, but in a way, it's an awful lot like Thunder Castle without the great music, while having less interesting opponents. You run around a maze, trying to catch four ghosts. They look like they're wearing sheets and resemble the garb of a certain unpleasant organization's infamous garb a bit too much to be comfortable. The game even has some graphics that appear to be similar to Thunder Castle's, and uses the same thunderclap sound effect. It does offer you a large variety of mazes, and you can construct your own as well. Scooby is well-rendered and very smoothly animated. But it's really just another maze game. This game also has the same title screen music as Coleco's Donkey Kong Junior!

A total of two Scooby Doo's Maze Chase box variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	4533	1983	Singapore	Gatefold box; plastic tray; copyright information on back cover; has barcode on back; no detailed part number
	Mattel Electronics	4533-0210	1983		Origin is not printed on box, but generic copyright info printed on back; opens on bottom flap—not a gatefold box; has barcode on back

There are at least two different types of boxes for Scooby Doo's Maze Chase. The traditional book-style box, and the flip-top box, which was common late in the life of the Intellivision at Mattel. The versions made in Singapore had the book-style boxes and the nicer label variant. These are mostly found in markets outside the U.S.A.

In addition to the two box styles, the backs of the two different styles list different 'made in...' text in the lower left corner.

A total of four Scooby Doo's Maze Chase manual variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	4533-0920	1983	U.S.A.
Image not available.	Mattel Electronics	????	None	Germany(?)	German version; appears to be typed up translation; spotted in eBay auction
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None	France(?)	Submitted by Oscar G.; appears to be a high-quality production of the Mattel Electronics in France
	Mattel Electronics	4533-0920	None	Italy(?)	No cover art, just the title, blue text; no origin or copyright date; back cover lists 28040 Oleggio Castello (NO); special thanks to Intellivotion

Only one version of the overlay has been found for Scooby Doo's Maze Chase.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	None

A total of two Scooby Doo's Maze Chase label variants have been documented.

Image	Vendor	Part Number	Year	Origin	Description
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	1983	Singapore	Red background with white letters; origin lower left; © M.E.I. 1983 to right of origin; © 1983 Hanna-Barbera Prod. lower right; ™ upper right; smaller label, rounded corners
	Mattel Electronics	N/A	1983	Singapore	Black background with orange letters; origin lower left; © M.E.I. 1983 to right of origin; © 1983 Hanna-Barbera Prod. lower right; ™ upper right; large label, rounded corners; submitted by Psycho Stormtrooper

Title screen for Scooby Doo's Maze Chase.

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