Mouse Trap
For more meanings, see mousetrap (disambiguation).Mouse Trap is a
1981 arcade game released by
Exidy similar to
Pac-Man It was ported to several home systems including
Colecovision and
Atari 2600.
In
1982,
Buckner and Garcia recorded a song titled "Mouse Trap," using sound effects from the game, and released it on the album
Pac-Man Fever.
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The Mouse Trap food chain. |
The differences between
Pac-Man and Mouse Trap are mostly aesthetic. The dots become
cheese, the player is a
mouse, the ghosts are
cats, and the power pills are bones that turn the player into a
dog. The combination of two player forms has the effect of creating a relatively complex
food chain for a video game. However, there are functional differences as well:
*The player can use buttons 2, 3 and 4 to open and close the yellow, red and blue doors.
*The four ghosts are replaced by six identical cats.
*There is a seventh monster, a
hawk, who will eat the player as both mouse and dog. Only the "In" field in the middle of the screen can stop the hawk (by causing it to move randomly instead of chasing the mouse), but this will beam the mouse back into one of the 4 areas in the corners.
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The KLOV entry for Mouse Trap
