Alley Cat

Alley Cat is a computer game created by Bill Williams and released by Synapse Software for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and for the PC in 1984. The player controls an alley cat whose object is to perform certain tasks within the homes of people, ultimately causing mischief and finding female cats to romance. It was developed and published by Synapse Software. IBM published the PC version. In the main screen, which is the alley, the player is presented with a tall fence in front of an apartment building with several windows. Each window periodically opens to throw out random objects (a phone, shoe, etc.) Every once in a while a dog may come running along the bottom edge of the screen. If the cat touches this dog, they get into a fight and one life is taken away. By jumping and climbing trash cans, the fence, and clotheslines, the cat can enter various rooms through the open windows. Each room contains one of several challenges: * In one room there’s a table with a birdcage on it in the middle of the room. Here the object is to push the birdcage off the table and then catch the bird which escapes from the broken cage. * In another room, there’s an fishbowl which the cat can enter and must eat all the fish while dodging electric eels and repeatedly coming up for air to avoid drowning. * Yet another room contains a huge chunk of cheese with a number of holes. In each a hole mice appear randomly, which the cat must catch. * The cat may also find itself in a room with a …
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