Peter Packrat

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Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1985
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch Electrohome G07

Conversion Class: Atari System I
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way with button
Buttons: 1

Sound: Amplified Stereo (two channel)

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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.

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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.

Scarcity in collections (VAPS.org)

Uncommon - There are 18 known instances of this game owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 8 of them are original dedicated machines, 1 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards have been placed in another game cabinet, and 9 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 42,694 video games (3,154 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 13 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 2 VAPS members currently looking for this game.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operatos might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

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.

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The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 189; Color photo;

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