You are a mouse in a maze who must avoid cats and hawks while searching for cheese, bones and bonus items. Eating bones will allow you to become a cat-eating dog. Pressing color buttons will change the maze.
Mouse Trap was produced by Exidy in 1981.
Exidy released 57 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1974. Exidy was based in United States.
Other machines made by Exidy during the time period Mouse Trap was produced include: Star Fire, Tail Gunner II, Spectar, Bandido, Targ, Venture, Teeter Torture, Victory, Pepper II, and Hard Hat
Name | Mouse Trap |
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Developer | Exidy (United States) |
Year | 1981 |
Type | Videogame |
KLOV/MOG # | 8765 |
Class | Wide Release |
Genre | Labyrinth/Maze |
Monitor |
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Conversion Class | unique |
Game Specific | Mouse Trap Pinout |
Dipswitch Settings | |
# Simultaneous Players | 1 |
# Maximum Players | 2 |
Game Play | Alternating |
Control Panel Layout | Single Player |
Controls |
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Sound | Amplified Mono (one channel) |
Cabinet Styles |
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Collect all the pieces of cheese to clear the maze. There is a teleporter in the middle of the maze that allows you to escape a tight situation, but you will be teleported to a random corner where things could be either better or worse. Eating a doggy bone will allow you to use the dog button, which, in turn, allows you to eat cats. However, both the dog and the mouse are vulnerable to the hawk that flies over periodically. Alter the maze in order to avoid and block off cats. Pressing a certain color button will move the respective doors on the screen.
Occasionally, prizes including big blocks of cheese, paper clips, safety pins, skeleton keys, candlesticks, apples, etc. will appear in the maze and they can be eaten for bonus points. Going into the "IN" doorway in the middle of the maze makes the hawk become stupid.
Overall Like |
3.86 |
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Fun (Social) | 2.33 |
Fun (Solo) | 3.50 |
Collector Desire | 3.50 |
Gameplay | 3.71 |
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Graphics | 2.86 |
Originality | 3.57 |
Sound/Music | 2.71 |
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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 88 known instances of this machine owned by Mouse Trap collectors who are active members. Of these, 75 of them are original dedicated machines. 13 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.
For Sale - There are 5 active VAPS members with a Mouse Trap machines for sale.
Wanted - There are 8 active VAPS members currently looking for Mouse Trap. There is one active VAPS member looking for a Mouse Trap circuit board set.
This game ranks a 23 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.
This game ranks a 17 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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