Mouse trap

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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.

Mouse Trap vs.
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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