Peter Pack Rat

Description

A platform game with three different boards Junk Yard, Cavern, and Tree. The object is to collect items like bottles, watches, hats, balls, and cans and bring them back to your nest. However, you must avoid a variety of animals such as rats, cats, dogs, bats and owls who are either in your way or are out to get you.

Peter Pack Rat was produced by Atari Games in 1985.

Atari Games released 89 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1984. Atari Games was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari Games during the time period Peter Pack Rat was produced include: E.T., Last Starfighter The, Marble Madness, Paperboy, Gauntlet, Road Runner, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Gauntlet (PlayChoice), and Star Wars - Empire Strikes Back

Specs

Name	Peter Pack Rat
Developer	Atari Games (United States)
Year	1985
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	8998
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Platform
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Color 19-inch Electrohome G07
Conversion Class	Atari System I
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Alternating
Control Panel Layout	Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls	Joystick: 8-way with button - Jump Buttons: 1 - Throw
Sound	Amplified Stereo (two channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard
Control Panel	Peter Pack Rat Control Panel Image

Game Play

The game play is quite simple: pick up one or more objects and return them to the nest. You can throw any number of objects that you've collected to stun animals. Flying animals that have been stunned can be ridden around the screen for a short period of time. A round ends when all the desired objects have been collected in the nest. Each successive rounds adds more objects and enemies along with changing the patterns of the shortcuts.

Peter Pack Rat KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.33 (6 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.01

Overall Like	3.33
Fun (Social)	2.20
Fun (Solo)	3.50
Collector Desire	2.75

Technical Rating: 3.63

Gameplay	3.67
Graphics	3.83
Originality	3.50
Sound/Music	3.50

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Peter Pack Rat Census

There are 15,264 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,669 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,973 machines (7,000 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 57 known instances of this machine owned by Peter Pack Rat collectors who are active members. Of these, 32 of them are original dedicated machines. 4 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 21 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 2 active VAPS members with a Peter Pack Rat machines for sale.

Wanted - There are 7 active VAPS members currently looking for Peter Pack Rat.

This game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 10 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Technical

The main processor is the 68010. A 6502A controls the main sound, coin slots and shares 8-bit I/O with the 68010. The FM sounds are generated by a YM2151.

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 189; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 189; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (5facbabba74ab129d06e6be4f8954ac)

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