Mouse Trap

Mouse Trap
Developer(s)	Exidy
Publisher(s)	Coleco
Release date	Atari 2600: 1982 (NA) Intellivision: 1982 (NA)
Genre	Maze
Mode(s)	Single player
Age rating(s)	N/A Atari 2600 Intellivision
Platform(s)	Atari 2600 Intellivision Template:Infobox/input
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Mouse Trap is an arcade game released in 1981. It was ported to the Atari 2600, the ColecoVision, and the Intellivision.

Gameplay

You are a mouse in a maze who must avoid cats and hawks while searching for cheese, bones and bonus items. Eating bones will allow you to become a cat-eating dog. Pressing color buttons will change the maze.

Collect all the pieces of cheese to clear the maze. There is a teleporter in the middle of the maze that allows you to escape a tight situation, but you will be teleported to a random corner where things could be either better or worse. Eating a doggy bone will allow you to use the dog button, which, in turn, allows you to eat cats. However, both the dog and the mouse are vulnerable to the hawk that flies over periodically. Alter the maze in order to avoid and block off cats. Pressing a certain color button will move the respective doors on the screen.

Occasionally, prizes including big blocks of cheese, paper clips, safety pins, skeleton keys, candlesticks, apples, etc. will appear in the maze and they can be eaten for bonus points. Going into the "IN" doorway in the middle of the maze makes the hawk become stupid.

Notes

The Intellivision version of this game is not usable on the Intellivision II.

A similar game to this, Mouse Maze, appears as one of the featured mini-games on Fun N Games for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.

Gallery

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  Atari 2600 Boxart

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  Intellivision Boxart