Description
Catrap is a single screen puzzle game with 100 rounds. You and your sister (or girlfriend?) have somehow been turned into cat-humans and you're are trapped in a castle full of baddies. The gameplay is very similar to
Mole Mole, and is best described as a mix between
Boulder Dash and
Soko-Ban.
The goal is to clear each screen of bad guys, in 100 increasingly difficult rounds. You can punch a bad guy by walking onto it from the left or right. You can't attack from above or below, but you can stand on top of a monster, or underneath a monster. Other elements to make the game more interesting are loose ground which you can stand on or dig through, ladders to climb and boulders you can push around.
You can choose to play each round as a boy or a girl, but this doesn't affect gameplay, only the background music. In some rounds, both the boy and the girl are present at the same time. You can then switch between them with select-button, using both of them in clever ways to solve the rounds. During the game, you can rewind to undo certain moves. You can play the rounds in any order, so you can skip to more difficult ones and solve them at a later time. There is a round editor to create your own puzzles, but these self made rounds can't be saved.
Alternate Titles
- "Power Paws" -- Cancelled European release title
- "Pitman" -- Japanese release
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Trivia
Development
Yutaka Isokawa originally created the game
Pitman on an MZ-700 computer, and the BASIC listing was published in 1985 in a magazine called "Oh! MZ publication".
European release
The game was to be released as
Power Paws on the European market, but despite it being mentioned in gaming magazines in 1993 it was never officially released.
