Crackpots
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| Developer(s) | Activision, Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | Activision, Inc. |
| Designer(s) | Dan Kitchen[1] |
| Platform(s) | Atari 2600 |
| Release | May 16, 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Fixed Shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player, multiplayer |
Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983.
Gameplay
In Crackpots, the player controls Potsy, a gardener. Potsy's Brooklyn building is being overrun by bugs trying to climb inside six different windows. The player moves Potsy back and forth along the roof to drop pots on the bugs before they get close enough to enter the windows.
The types of insects enter the walls in different patterns. Black bugs will move straight up the building, blue bugs wiggle from left to right, red bugs move diagonally, and green bugs zig-zag between windows.
Each level consists of four waves of twelve bugs each; defeat all four waves and the player will move on to a faster-paced level. Play then resumes until the building crumbles to the ground.
Whenever the player allows six bugs to enter the windows, one of the building's six layers will disappear and they'll begin the next wave closer to the ground.
Release and reception
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Crackpots was released May 16, 1983.[2] It was later released on compilation packages including Activision Classics (1998) for the PlayStation and the Activision Anthology (2002) for the PlayStation 2.[3][4]
Crackpots was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in June 2010.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "Crackpots - Credits - allgame". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 14, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
- ^ a b =Marriott, Scott Alan. "Crackpots - Overview - allgame". Allgame. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; November 14, 2014 suggested (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) - ^ Harris, Craig (September 29, 1998). "Activision Classics". IGN. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
- ^ Dunham, Jeremy (November 21, 2002). "Activision Anthology". IGN. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
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