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Alley Cat 2
Author: The Thinker Submitted: 10th February, 2007 Favourites:0
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Edited By The Thinker on 2/12/2007

DEDICATED TO: BILL WILLIAMS who released Alley Cat for PC in 1984.

In the main screen, the "alley", the player is presented with the outer façade of a house with several windows, which periodically open to throw out random objects. By jumping and climbing trash cans, the fence, and clotheslines, the cat can enter various rooms through these windows, and each room contains several challenges.
In all of these rooms, successful completion of the task is awarded with an amount of points .
The cat starts off with three lives in normal mode, and a life is deducted if one of the enemies (like the spider, an electric eel, etc.) is touched, or if the cat is hit by one of the objects that fall out of the windows in the alley. Most of the time, the only way to escape a task without losing a life is to jump back out of the window, but this is not always possible.
After completing the task in one of these rooms, the player returns to the alley where the windows now show a female cat calling him. Upon entering such a window, the player encounters a room in which there are several rows (a bit like shelves) made out of valentine hearts on which other cats walk left and right. The object is to reach the cat at the top while maneuvering around the other cats, which cause the player to fall a level if touched. Each "row" has areas the player can stand on as well as areas where they fall through (the other cats, however, never fall through)
These areas switch between one status and the other as they are touched by heart-shaped arrows that are constantly shot diagonally across the screen. These arrows also cause the player to fall down a level. There are also gift-wrapped presents on the bottom row that could be used to eliminate an unfriendly cat. If the player falls from the bottom row, they fail and must return to the alley and complete another task.
In the alley, every once in a while a dog may come running along the bottom edge of the screen. If the cat ever touches this dog, they get into a fight and gradually move off the screen. One life is taken away if the cat gets into a fight with the dog.
Most rooms also contain a broomstick that appears to move on its own. The cat can make footprints at the bottom edge of the screen to keep the broom busy with cleaning them up. While there are no footprints, the broom will constantly go after the cat. It is harmless in the sense that it never kills the cat, but it pushes the cat around, enough to make it more difficult, rather impossible to complete the task if the broom is not kept busy. In particular, it might often throw the cat right at the above-mentioned dog, or out of the window.
If the cat manages to kiss the female cat in the special room, the player gains an extra life and extra points.
This continues indefinitely and the goal is to see how far one can go before running out of lives.

I played Alley Cat for the first time in 1988 and I think it's the best old game you can play on a modern pc if you love video games from the past,
'Cause Alley Cat is very dynamic,very funny and never boring.
I remaked this game 'cause no one else did it, for the love of programming and of course to make my special tribute to Bill Williams the original maker of Alley Cat.
If you want to make more Alley Cat remakes, visit my site http://asetgames.altervista.org and you'll find all you need to start your game!

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Posted by Flava 11th February, 2007

Screenshots do not work.
 
Posted by The Thinker 12th February, 2007

I don't know why they don't appear in the preview, however if you click on them they appear
 
Posted by The Chris Street 12th February, 2007

Could you also provide a better description?

What is Alley Cat all about, for example?
 
Posted by The Thinker 12th February, 2007

You're right, done
 
Posted by Roman-the-evil 13th February, 2007

Wooow... lol, I actually played the original of this game too in my childhood =D
 
Posted by robin90 14th February, 2007

A very nicely done remake. Really remind me back to the days when We played this game using floppy disk
Thumbs up for the effort
 
Posted by Hempuli 15th February, 2007

I loved Alley Cat!
 
Posted by steve 15th February, 2007

wow, I remember this... somehow. Was it a spectrum game?
 
Posted by David Newton (DavidN) 15th February, 2007

It was on the PC in the CGA days... might have been on other platforms as well.
 
Posted by Dave S. 16th February, 2007

Yeah I remember Alley Cat... funny game.
 
Posted by 23rd February, 2007

i gotta be honest i didn't understand what the hell was going on, my cat could fly for some strange reason, i'm not 100% sure but i think a broom was chaseing me! nostalgie could be the only reason to love a game like this, unfortunately alittle before my time but we can all appreciate the work u've put into the game nice!!!!!
 
Posted by Yai7 29th November, 2010

This game is scrapped! I made once a version that works a bit more fixed!
 

 



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