Alley Cat for the Atari 8-bit family

Came also out for:

PC-88
PC Booter

Game description:

Alley Cat is an action game consisting of several mini games tied together. You're a little black cat who wants to make love to a pretty lady cat that lives in an apartment complex. Play all kinds of cat-themed mini games in order to reach her and score as many points as you can while doing so.

You start out in an alley and need to get inside the apartment by climbing on garbage cans and a fence. Next, jump on a clothesline and through several open windows while big dogs try to eat you and people throw garbage at you. Outside of the apartment complex you can score points by eating the mice that run across the clotheslines. Once you've jumped through a window you enter a room where you play a randomly assigned mini game.

These mini games include: eating all the fish in a fish bowl, stealing milk from a bunch of bulldogs, pushing a birdcage from a table and eating the bird, catching mice inside a big cheese, pushing vases from a cabinet. To make things harder there's always a broom inside every room that tries to knock you around. You score points by completing the mini games within a certain time (the faster the better).

After you've completed a mini game you're back in the alley. Make your way back inside the apartment complex and you get a chance to play the love-cat game: try to reach the lady cat on the top row of hearts while rival male cats and cupid's arrows knock you down. After you've mated, the difficulty gets cranked up a notch.

What I think:

Unique, quite fun to play and hilarious? Yeah, this is Alley Cat! :)

[maxd]

I love Alley Cat! It's one of the most solid gaming all-round experiences of the 1980s. Graphics, sound, small details and gameplay are all great!

[fandenivoldsk]

One of the best games ever for the AtariXL

[steerpike]

A nonsensically addictive game. They really should remake this one as an app for your phone with the same pixelated graphics but with a few extra rooms and bonuses. The look would be similar to the excellent 'Crashy Cats' game that recently came out.

[joflof]

For those who may be interested: we just published a retroremake multiplayer version of this game, available for windows and for free! :D