ATARI 2600(TM) Game Manual

MOUSE TRAP(TM)
By Exidy

An A-Maze-ing Race

It's dinnertime, and you're simply starving.  What you would do for
a nice hunk of cheese!  A slice of old-fashioned Swiss would be nice,
or, even better, a morsel of Camembert.  Mmmmm.

Dreaming of cheese won't get you anywhere.  You're going to have to earn
your lunch.  As a hungry but clever mouse, you'll have to chomp your way
through a maze of corridors and doors, while avoiding starving cats who
want nothing better than to eat you.  But those feline fanatics aren't
as crafty as you are.  You can outrun them.  You can confuse them by
opening and shutting trapdoors.  And, with a stash of bones in reserve,
you can fool these furry menaces by turning into a cat-biting dog!

And the race is on!

Getting Started

1. With your TV turned on, insert the Mouse Trap cartridge into your
Atari 2600 or 7800(TM) as explained in your Owner's Manual, and turn
on your console.  A maze of corridors and trapdoors appears on the
screen.  The chomping mouse is in the center, and the cats are not
far away.

2. Plug a joystick into the left joystick port.

3. If you are using an Atari 2600, select color with the TV switch.
For an even more challenging game, set it to black and white to make
the mazes, cheese, and bones invisible.  If you are using an Atari
7800, press [Pause] to play the invisible maze.  To go back to the
visible maze, turn the power off and then on again.

4. Set the Left Difficulty switch to adjust the cats' intelligence (A
for smart cats or B for stupid cats); set the Right Difficulty switch
to adjust the cats' speed (A for fast cats or B for slow cats).

5. Press [Reset] to start the game or to begin a new game.

Playing the Game

Hold the joystick so that the fire button is on the top-left corner.
Push the handle up, down, left, or right to scamper through corridors
and doors.

Press the fire button once slowly to open or shut a trapdoor.  Press
it once quickly to change the mouse into the dog.

Your goal is to eat your way through a series of mazes and win points.
To do so, you must run over every morsel of cheese in each maze, while
avoiding the cats.  If yo usucceed and live to tell about it, you'll
advance to the next maze, as cat-infested as the previous one and even
more challenging.

To trick the cats, change the shape of the maze by opening and
shutting trapdoors.  Even better, turn into a dog, and turn the
tables on them.  You'll even win points.  Be careful.  Your dog
phases are short, lasting only a few seconds.

This mouse-to-dog transformation is possible only if yo uhave at
least one bone on reserve.  To stockpile up to four bones at a time,
gobble them up as you run through the maze.  But watch your bone
reserve.  No bone, no dog.

You'll start the race with three mice.  If yo urun into a cat,
you'll go to mouse heaven, and the next mouse will take over.  The
game is over when you use up all of your mice.

Scoring

Eat a cheese ...   1 point
Bite a cat   ...  10 points
Clear a maze ... 100 points

Each time your score reaches a multiple of 500, you'll earn a
bonus mouse.


ATARI, the ATARI logo, 2600, and 7800 are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Atari Corporation.  Mouse Trap is a trademark of Exidy, Inc. (C) 1981,
Exidy, Inc.  2600 version (C) 1982, Coleco Industries, Inc.

(C) 1988 Atari Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA 94086.  All rights reserved.

Printed in Hong Kong.  C3000160-146 Rev. Faith Luck

1988 ATARI

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