Underplayed Gems

Rat Attack! (1999)

Rat Attack! cover
Developer
Pure Audio
Publisher
Mindscape
Platforms
Nintendo 64, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation
Genres
Puzzle, Arcade
Rating
4.3 of 5, 6 player ratings
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How it feels

A breezy, cartoonish scramble against the clock as you chase and zap waves of rats before they trash everything in sight.

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About

Play as one of the Scratch Cats, an elite superhero team, who are out to save the world from Washington and Jefferson, two evil mutant space rats who wish to enslave the world in rats. Explore each puzzle level and wipe out the rat threat. First you need to catch the rat, using the Eraticator. Then you must find the Destructor pad in each level in order for the rat to be taken out. Each level has a quota of rats you must remove, and if you fail to do so within the time limit (which, in this case, is when the rats destroy everything in the level), you lose.

What players say

A bizarre, colorful arcade-puzzle game about exterminating rats with switches, lasers and teleporters. Reviewed poorly overall and largely lost to obscurity, though some found a slice of frantic puzzling fun.

Screenshots

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