Caesar The Cat

Meet Caesar, a cheeky young cat on duty in a well-stocked larger. He's kept busy chasing a gang of hungry mice eating the family's food.

Playing against the clock, you guide Caesar along crowded shelves to pounce on the mice and take them from the larder. Watch out for the crockery! Ten levels of difficulty.

A colourful game which is challenging for high-scoring arcade addicts as well as great fun to play for the novice.

The Game

The aim of the game is to get Caesar to clear the larder of mice by catching them and taking them out through the door.

Under your control Caesar can walk in either direction along each larger shelf, as well as jump up or down the shelves.

Use a joystick, or control Caesar from the keyboard. The keyboard controls: Z - Left, X - Right, * - Up, ? - Down. P will halt the game and pressing P again restarts it.

Pressing Q turns the sound off, and S turns it on again. Start the game by pressing the Fire button or the Space Bar.

While Caesar prowls the larder, the mice are busy devouring food but they can be caught by Caesar if he pounces on them. They don't stay still for long, especially if Caesar is on the same shelf.

When you catch a mouse door appears leading out of the larder. Once through it, and out of sight, Caesar drops the mouse and is ready to return, under your guidance, to continue hurting. The more mice Caesar catches, the faster the remaining mice move.

As the mice continue to eat, items of food disappear from the shelves.

Scoring

You start with 10,000 points which run down to zero as time passes. You earn extra points by catching mice, of which there are three kinds - black mice worth 300 points, blue mice worth 500 points and white mice worth 700 points. There are ten mice of each colour.

If you catch all the mice, the larger is replenished, but the jars go back on the shelves, the mice speed up, and there are another thirty to catch.

You lose points by knocking down any of the items of crockery on the shelves. Caesar can walk along the shelves behind the crockery without disturbing it but if he leaps off the shelves at the point where crockery stands he knocks it down.

The penalties are heavy - you lose 6,000 points for the teapot and 4,000 for the bottles.

However, knock the red crockery off and the game ends! The game also ends if your score runs down to zero.

To add insult to injury you lose 400 points every time Caesar bangs his head on a wall.

You also lose points for each item of food, the mice eat and if Caesar stops moving your score will disappear at a faster rate!

Scores are shown on two panels on the scales on the bottom shelf. The right-hand panel shows the current game score. The left-hand panel, labelled hi, records the best score over 10,000 attained in the current session.

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To replay at the end of a game, press the Fire button or the Space bar during Caesar's walkabout in the title sequence.