You Can’t Hide!

A stealth game is a video game in which the player’s goal is to avoid detection. The genre was introduced in 1981 by the game Castle Wolfenstein, but was not popularized until 1998, with the release of Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation. The genre’s best selling games are Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, each with 7 million in sales.

Castle Wolfenstein, originally available on the Apple II in 1981, is the earliest video game to employ stealth elements and have stealth as a focus of the gameplay (not to be confused with Wolfenstein 3D, an early FPS title). Players were charged with traversing the levels of Castle Wolfenstein, avoiding or killing the guards, stealing the secret plans and escaping. While the gameplay was primitive by today’s standards, players could use the environment to sneak around guards, sneak up on or avoid guards while they were facing the other way, hold a guard at gunpoint and search him for supplies (dead guards could also be searched), or acquire uniforms to disguise themselves and walk by undetected. Having your weapon drawn while disguising yourself raised the ire of the guards, as well as firing a weapon (either to kill a guard or force open a chest as opposed to picking the lock). While not strictly a stealth-element, the game also employed the concept of limited-resources and acquiring resources from the environment. A player might be able to run-and-gun his way through the game (the special SS guards are particularly hard to kill), but would have a much better chance of success employing a deliberate, stealthy mode of gameplay.

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Jungle or Dou Shou Qi (traditional Chinese: Game of Fighting Animals) is a traditional Chinese board game. It is also known as Jungle Chess or Animal Chess. It is a two player, abstract strategy game played on a 7×9 board. In many ways, the game resembles the western game Stratego, which has its origin in Jungle.[1] The major difference between the two games is that in Jungle the pieces are not hidden from the opponent and initial setup is fixed.

The Jungle game board consists of seven columns and nine rows of squares. Pieces move on the square spaces as in international chess, not on the lines as in xiangqi. Pictures of eight animals and their names appear on each side of the board to indicate initial placement of the game pieces. Other than initial setup, these animal spaces have no use in game play.

Capturing

Animals capture the opponent pieces by “eating” them. A piece can capture any enemy piece which has the same or lower rank, with the following exceptions:

* The Mouse may kill (capture) the Elephant. Many published versions of the game say this is done by the Mouse crawling in the Elephant’s ear and gnawing at his brains. As stated above, the Mouse may not capture the Elephant from a water square. The powers of the Mouse resemble those of the Spy in Stratego.
* The player may capture any enemy piece in one of the player’s trap squares regardless of rank.

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