Man, these pre-soundblaster PC speaker effects are just hilarious! Fond memories of this game, too. Was one of he first I've ever played on the pc of my dad. On a 5 1/4" floppy disk.
I clocked this game. Once you reach 1 000-0000 it runs out of ability to track your score and it goes back to 0. So I quit... man was I late to school that day.
Yeah, like many old games. Here in Brazil, when you finished a game, we used to say "zerar o jogo" ("zeroed the game"). This expression came from this old games, where the score were reset to 0 once you achieve a limit score.
That Street Dog that comes at you if you dawdle too long and dont hop on the bins, what a terrifying game villain, Proto-Nemesis, "SssS.T.A.R.S (C.A.T.)..." lol thanks for the upload this brought back alot of fun memories! ^_^
Well, I never came close to a game THAT long, and then to think you never crawled thought he holes in the big cheese (alt), or gave presents to get rid of the cats on the lower levels in order to get to the female at the top. Not to mention that making more and more tracks to keep the broom occupied longer as something that also never happens.... Quite an achievement
That's impressive! I think I remember trying to run it on our Hercules graphics card, using CGA emulation. I think it worked only for the cyan/blue/white pallet, so as you entered a window, I wouldn't see anything! Only much later did I find out there are many mini games inside this 30kB gem :-)
When your cat is hanging on one of the cheese holes pressing alt will make him/her go into that hole and come out on another - very helpful for ambushing the mice. The holes are paired and after a while you'll remember which hole goes where.
I don't remember if I ever figured that out. But I do remember when I found out some button will eat the dog bowls. I didn't have any manual or anything, it was all trial and error.
I remember playing this game on my IBM XT with a monochromatic display (black and green only). This was one of the 3 games that I had in that computer. The other two were a racing game and a memory game.
też miałem 4-5lat jak to grałem na ibm-ie w wojsu, u mamy w pracy. Pamiętam jaka to była ciężka gra. Większość tych pokoi, czy rybek w akwarium - nie wiedziałem nawet, że to istnieje w tej grze :) Przeważnei ginąłem na głównej planszy :-) Wpisz sobie w youtube jeszcze: Space Commanders 1983 Tetris 1987 Sokoban 1984 Lode Runner 1983 PC Digger 1983 (ta muzyczka :) ) i powiedz czy coś z tego pamiętasz.
@@Radek__ no jaha że tak! Zwłaszcza digger! Ja grałam w pracy u taty na starym IBMie i serio było ciężko w moim wieku. Potem ojciec przyniósł jakieś niechciane odpady z których poskładał kompa i graliśmy w to całą rodziną. Doszłam już do wyższych poziomów ale i tak było to turbo trudne
@@magdalenaniezabitowska1743 fajna historia :-) Te Ibm-y na których ja grałem miały grafikę bursztynową/brązową (bo karty graficzne były hercules). Fajnie mieliście, że można było złożyć komputer z niechcianych gratów. U nas nie było takiej opcji. Pamiętam jak miałem te 8-9lat gdzieś tak 89/90rok to mieliśmy tam grę Pince of Persia. I tak się wkręciliśmy, że był taki dzień, że mama kończyła już pracę a ja zaszedłem do levelu 4go, do którego wcześniej nie udało się mamie i nikomu tam dotrzeć i ona się zajarała i mówiła, że mam tu zostać i grać dalej, a ona musiała wyjść bo o danej godzinie trzeba było podpisać listę wyjścia i zostawiła mi klucze i taką wojskową pieczątkę małą, żebym potem zakmknął drzwi przypieczętował taki sznurek przy drzwiach do takiej mazi tą pieczątką. A potem w domu jej opowiadałem co było na poziomie4. Taka była desperacja :) KIedyś te gry się jakoś tak bardziej przeżywało niż dzisiaj, a wyglądały tandetnie. Może dlatego, że teraz mamy za dużo tego wszystkiego.
@@Radek__ tak, te gry tak wciągały że grało się cały dzień i do tego brak zapisów powodował to że cały dzień siedziało się przed ekranem. Jejku ale historia z tą pieczątka no nieźle
You can long-jump straight up (as opposed to diagonally) by getting to the fast running speed, then stop running and immediately jump up. It's a much easier way to get on the trash bins in the higher levels and to get up in the bonus level.
I think there's a key that lets you place the gifts that you pick up in the Meow screen. If an orange cat walks into a gift, he disappears, or something like that. Also: 36:49 - oh, I can feel the rage there!
Legend! However I notice that you didn't use the alt key at any point - useful in the cheese room and dropping decoy presents for the cats guarding the female cat.
I loved this when it came out. It was so much fun and it was also very loud if you kept the sound on. I remember playing it years later late at night in the lab and having the scientist down the hall come down to find out where the sound was coming from. Last time I tried you could still get it to work in emulation mode on some PCs. The whole thing fit in a single tiny executable including all the sounds and graphics. Amazing.
Playing this game in my youth was what inspired me to have pet canaries in adulthood! They are even cuter in real life than in this game. ...Their little peeps and chirps!
If you don't mind cheating, you can press ctrl+9 to get nine lives. Also in my version of this game the number of lives is stored at the 8065th byte in the executable. If you disable the instructions decreasing its value you won't loose any lives.
You seem unaware that the "alt" key performs several useful functions in the game. Namely, going through the holes in the cheese and giving the presents to the female cats.
I wish I could play this fully on my 8088. The game gets REEEALLY slow when swimming in the fishbowl, even though it's a turbo machine running at 8Mhz. :(((
48 minutes is nothing compared to how long I had to survive a single game for. Then again; most of the games I have played are much more modern with autosave so I took breaks frequently. Still, though.
On the screen for meeting the white girl cat, what if you picked up the gifts left at the bottom and 1 by 1 put them on the top row before picking up the last one and touching her?
I always hated the spider one! I remebered trying to fast for the mother******, but in the end, it was always either THAT thing or the dog; but it was always the first.
If you're just going for the longest game, there's a point in the game where you don't have to actively dodge anything. If you finish any of the first level windows, and all the windows change to the ones with the female cat, nobody's throwing anything out of the window. You can just hop on the fence and sit there forever. Of course that wouldn't really be playing the game anymore, but there you go.
You got the dog food level so many times. That was my favorite. However, why aren't you using the tab button for the cheese level and why aren't you dropping the presents to neutralize the other cats on the bonus level?
Can this game ever be finished? I can see that at the end you have finished the female kitty level a couple of times, still you don't move further... Btw, there is an ultra-simple cheat: Ctrl+9 gives you nine lives and you can use it indefinitely.
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6 minutes in - you seem to never use the special interaction key (I think it was "alt") for going into the cheese holes or for giving presents to the rival cats in the "love" mission. Is this deliberate or you have become so incredibly good without knowing about it? :)
No prob. :) It's the programmer's fault for not explaining on the help screen. "The alt key performs special actions" isn't enough information. I know memory was expensive in those days, but really! 9_9
OMG I used to play this frigging game for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages. It had the best music of any game I had played.... err, at the time.
![Alley Cat - [MS-DOS]](/img/n.gif)
Childhood memories.
+viziosus
I was terrified every time I got the dog room.
What is scaring is that, when the dog comes, all becomes silent. Everyone fears the dogs.
XX
Same here. All silent, until that fearful dogsound comes... You know something big and bad are chasing you!
Man, these pre-soundblaster PC speaker effects are just hilarious! Fond memories of this game, too. Was one of he first I've ever played on the pc of my dad. On a 5 1/4" floppy disk.
I clocked this game. Once you reach 1 000-0000 it runs out of ability to track your score and it goes back to 0. So I quit... man was I late to school that day.
omg
Yeah, like many old games.
Here in Brazil, when you finished a game, we used to say "zerar o jogo" ("zeroed the game"). This expression came from this old games, where the score were reset to 0 once you achieve a limit score.
In my school we had a ibm pc at with alleycat on it, many lunch breaks were spent on it
That Street Dog that comes at you if you dawdle too long and dont hop on the bins, what a terrifying game villain,
Proto-Nemesis, "SssS.T.A.R.S (C.A.T.)..."
lol thanks for the upload this brought back alot of fun memories! ^_^
What memories! I just wanna cry...
I played it like crazy in Finland around 1987-89. Called it ”kissapeli” = cat game.
Well, I never came close to a game THAT long, and then to think you never crawled thought he holes in the big cheese (alt), or gave presents to get rid of the cats on the lower levels in order to get to the female at the top. Not to mention that making more and more tracks to keep the broom occupied longer as something that also never happens.... Quite an achievement
That's impressive! I think I remember trying to run it on our Hercules graphics card, using CGA emulation. I think it worked only for the cyan/blue/white pallet, so as you entered a window, I wouldn't see anything! Only much later did I find out there are many mini games inside this 30kB gem :-)
u could use "alt" to go through cheese holes.
and to fool them cats.
that's a trick not many people know hehe
when the cat jumps into the aquarium suddenly the size gets much bigger
I used to play this game all the time when I was a child. Looking back at it now, I realize how much I relate to the black cat.
When your cat is hanging on one of the cheese holes pressing alt will make him/her go into that hole and come out on another - very helpful for ambushing the mice. The holes are paired and after a while you'll remember which hole goes where.
I don't remember if I ever figured that out. But I do remember when I found out some button will eat the dog bowls. I didn't have any manual or anything, it was all trial and error.
@@ktulhuperttilemmenlautta [Left Alt]!
My favorite room was the spider room which sadly was the rarest one....
TheMediaDirectory mine too! That task was the fastest one
Same here; especially with the spider-'BYTE!'
I remember playing this game on my IBM XT with a monochromatic display (black and green only).
This was one of the 3 games that I had in that computer. The other two were a racing game and a memory game.
Do you remember the name of the racing game? Did it have windmills as part of the scenery? I can't remember its name and it's really bugging me.
wow! very good! I was 4 when I first see that game. I love this. Nice memories
też miałem 4-5lat jak to grałem na ibm-ie w wojsu, u mamy w pracy. Pamiętam jaka to była ciężka gra. Większość tych pokoi, czy rybek w akwarium - nie wiedziałem nawet, że to istnieje w tej grze :) Przeważnei ginąłem na głównej planszy :-)
Wpisz sobie w youtube jeszcze:
Space Commanders 1983
Tetris 1987
Sokoban 1984
Lode Runner 1983 PC
Digger 1983 (ta muzyczka :) )
i powiedz czy coś z tego pamiętasz.
@@Radek__ no jaha że tak! Zwłaszcza digger! Ja grałam w pracy u taty na starym IBMie i serio było ciężko w moim wieku. Potem ojciec przyniósł jakieś niechciane odpady z których poskładał kompa i graliśmy w to całą rodziną. Doszłam już do wyższych poziomów ale i tak było to turbo trudne
@@magdalenaniezabitowska1743 fajna historia :-) Te Ibm-y na których ja grałem miały grafikę bursztynową/brązową (bo karty graficzne były hercules). Fajnie mieliście, że można było złożyć komputer z niechcianych gratów. U nas nie było takiej opcji. Pamiętam jak miałem te 8-9lat gdzieś tak 89/90rok to mieliśmy tam grę Pince of Persia. I tak się wkręciliśmy, że był taki dzień, że mama kończyła już pracę a ja zaszedłem do levelu 4go, do którego wcześniej nie udało się mamie i nikomu tam dotrzeć i ona się zajarała i mówiła, że mam tu zostać i grać dalej, a ona musiała wyjść bo o danej godzinie trzeba było podpisać listę wyjścia i zostawiła mi klucze i taką wojskową pieczątkę małą, żebym potem zakmknął drzwi przypieczętował taki sznurek przy drzwiach do takiej mazi tą pieczątką. A potem w domu jej opowiadałem co było na poziomie4. Taka była desperacja :) KIedyś te gry się jakoś tak bardziej przeżywało niż dzisiaj, a wyglądały tandetnie. Może dlatego, że teraz mamy za dużo tego wszystkiego.
@@Radek__ tak, te gry tak wciągały że grało się cały dzień i do tego brak zapisów powodował to że cały dzień siedziało się przed ekranem. Jejku ale historia z tą pieczątka no nieźle
Interesting to know how he achived the red color (in the fish scene) in cga mode with palette 1...was one of my first game back in the 80s...
You can long-jump straight up (as opposed to diagonally) by getting to the fast running speed, then stop running and immediately jump up. It's a much easier way to get on the trash bins in the higher levels and to get up in the bonus level.
lol@sound of the Cat flying when the broom hits it
Incredibly original and stylish game, not to mention well programmed. Bravo.
This was one of the first games I ever played.
I'm working on a short video segment on it.
Let me say this: You play a hell of a lot better than I do.
The Icy Tower character made of this game's protagonist is spot on, it seems!
The difficulty of this game is brutal.
I think there's a key that lets you place the gifts that you pick up in the Meow screen. If an orange cat walks into a gift, he disappears, or something like that.
Also: 36:49 - oh, I can feel the rage there!
This. Also, same key allowed you to skip through the holes in the giant cheese :)
Yep, it's "Alt" key. You can also go inside the whole of the large cheese to suddenly appear from another whole - same way - "Alt" key. ;)
Legend! However I notice that you didn't use the alt key at any point - useful in the cheese room and dropping decoy presents for the cats guarding the female cat.
the most secretive part was quitting the game: CTRL + Y....
вспоминаю детство и улыбаюсь))) это были лучшие времена, хочу обратно!!!!
I loved this when it came out. It was so much fun and it was also very loud if you kept the sound on. I remember playing it years later late at night in the lab and having the scientist down the hall come down to find out where the sound was coming from. Last time I tried you could still get it to work in emulation mode on some PCs.
The whole thing fit in a single tiny executable including all the sounds and graphics.
Amazing.
God I loved that game. Never could bet it nor understand the point or main goal of the game, but shit was it fun! Man that broom was annoying...
Playing this game in my youth was what inspired me to have pet canaries in adulthood! They are even cuter in real life than in this game. ...Their little peeps and chirps!
OMG.... i stil remember this game.. i played it in my childhood.. thank you so much for sharing this with us😔❤❤
I hate games without ending.
In this case, level 30 is the highest, but there it´s infinite.
This has to be the craziest DOS game I've ever seen. And I've seen my share.
I played this for hours in the 80s. I miss it.
Dude, you can enter the holes in the cheese to catch the mice!!
was thinking same thing- pretty sure u press alt :)
Yes, and alt also worked for 'dropping' presents for the jealous cats in the jump-the-hearts levels.
In the level with the mice in the swiss cheese you can go inside the holes. It makes it much easier to avoid the broom.
In the early 90 I loved this game and its colors
7:30 you can use the presents, to get rid of some of the cats in the inbetween levels.
In the room with the sleeping dogs, if you hold the ALT key in front of a dish, the cat will drink the milk in the bowl. That's the goal in that room.
Is this game #alleycats available in any form now???
That dog room is scary as fuck
If you don't mind cheating, you can press ctrl+9 to get nine lives. Also in my version of this game the number of lives is stored at the 8065th byte in the executable. If you disable the instructions decreasing its value you won't loose any lives.
Is there a way to erase the dog from that file ?
What crazy person keeps electric eels in their fishbowl?
It's not a fishbowl it's a portal to a lake
hahaha
Guess those are not electric eels, but waves
Or a big ass block of cheese in their house?
hahhahah
You seem unaware that the "alt" key performs several useful functions in the game. Namely, going through the holes in the cheese and giving the presents to the female cats.
OMG...i remember this game! Wow you're actually good at this game :P
Ohh man...this game was SO DAMN hard! I could hardly finish a room! But it was so much fun!
OMG you're so good!!! i never managed that long:)!!! thanks for uploading - it's great to watch this again;-)
I wish I could play this fully on my 8088. The game gets REEEALLY slow when swimming in the fishbowl, even though it's a turbo machine running at 8Mhz. :(((
let the broom be your ally, NOT your enemy!
The longest I get was to pass Alley cat difficult level once. Didn't the room with the spider appeared in your longplay?
48 minutes is nothing compared to how long I had to survive a single game for.
Then again; most of the games I have played are much more modern with autosave so I took breaks frequently.
Still, though.
Retro legacy DOS game, Never being fated
On the screen for meeting the white girl cat, what if you picked up the gifts left at the bottom and 1 by 1 put them on the top row before picking up the last one and touching her?
So this game has no end?
not really, just for high score
Very literal, mine came on a self starting disk and I couldnt end the game :)
I always hated the spider one! I remebered trying to fast for the mother******, but in the end, it was always either THAT thing or the dog; but it was always the first.
Just Wondring, Dont you knoe how to use power jumps and how to get inside the chesse?
Incredible performance - you are my superstar...
and while on cheese room, alt gets you in the cheese
Still a better game than Watch Dogs
The music gave me the feeling of playing a highly strategic game 🧐
Check out that PC speaker riff!
You can use those extra gufts to remove toms from other levels
I was very good at this game, addicted to it. Good memories.
Is it possible to finish this game? I guess it can just go on forever if you stay alive
why is it so hard for me to jump over the dog? lol
Best of the possible arkades☘️
This can't be right. By the time I got to 67 kittens, the windows were opening and closing so fast that all you could see was them flickering.
8088 game. I still remember. I was pro like u also
This is the most cat game ever.
5:12 - 5:52
you know, that you can slip through the holes of the chees?
how to download it? nend to have it
If you're just going for the longest game, there's a point in the game where you don't have to actively dodge anything. If you finish any of the first level windows, and all the windows change to the ones with the female cat, nobody's throwing anything out of the window. You can just hop on the fence and sit there forever. Of course that wouldn't really be playing the game anymore, but there you go.
zlozlozlo kids need To test things like that, as well
90% of all the windows the cat goes in, is always the bird!!
You got the dog food level so many times. That was my favorite.
However, why aren't you using the tab button for the cheese level and why aren't you dropping the presents to neutralize the other cats on the bonus level?
Can this game ever be finished? I can see that at the end you have finished the female kitty level a couple of times, still you don't move further...
Btw, there is an ultra-simple cheat: Ctrl+9 gives you nine lives and you can use it indefinitely.
what happens in the cheese room if you press alt?
Wow, you are so smart. This game is ery difficult to play, I always hit by the white cats.
Thank you for posting the video!
You should play the Atari version,
Thnx man! my childhood:))
This is such a cute game... Freddy the Cat for Smash!!!
Weird but 8-bit Atari version looks and sounds so much better. Played both, loved both though. One of my favorite games of all time.
Don't you know you can enter the hole in the giant cheese level?
I used to jump out of the window on the stupid cheese level, also.
This constant clicking is part of the actual sound effects? Earrape...
avada yeah, it’s hypnotizing
game legend bgd buat gw saat masih kecil.. alhamdulillah punya orangtua yg bisa membahagiakan anaknya.. skr gantian gw yg harus bahagiain mereka yaa allah permudah segala urusan hamba untuk membahagiakan mereka.. amieeenn
on the cheese 🧀 level, you can use Alt to enter a cheese hole.
Wow :) i played this game in 1989 in USSR :)
6 minutes in - you seem to never use the special interaction key (I think it was "alt") for going into the cheese holes or for giving presents to the rival cats in the "love" mission. Is this deliberate or you have become so incredibly good without knowing about it? :)
You can push alt To go inside the cheese
31:28 mmm... ok go!
No prob. :) It's the programmer's fault for not explaining on the help screen. "The alt key performs special actions" isn't enough information. I know memory was expensive in those days, but really! 9_9
OMG I used to play this frigging game for aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages. It had the best music of any game I had played.... err, at the time.
aaaaaaaah, sounds great!!! too bad i didn't know back then, would have been fun
:) thanks for telling:)
One of my first games played.
yep, that's impressive. good old memories..
2021 This was one of the first games I ever played
I wish IBM had stuck to game development, :)
This game is really great.
Oh my God! How are you getting online with THAT?!
I remember! Amazing :)