Tom & Jerry: Yankee Doodle's CAT-astrophe

Game review

A game based on grotesques with never-ending deliberations and chases between a cat and a mouse. Well, that's actually the only content of the whole game. You find yourself in the role of Jerry the mouse and you have to get as many points as possible with your actions, while you determine the playing time yourself (the playing time can be set between 1 and 10 minutes). Game is based on the well-known animated series Tom and Jerry, and just like in this series, in the game, the treacherous cat Tom tries to torment the little mouse Jerry. Before starting the game, you choose the time for which you want the fight to last (from 1 to 10 minutes) and then you find yourself in the role of Jerry the mouse, whose task is to defeat Tom. The whole game takes place in one room of the basement, and Jerry can of course also run into the mouse hole.

In addition to having to quickly run away from Tom, you need to trick him and hurt him with the weapons at your disposal. You can fight him in a sword fight, but instead of a sword you have to use the knitting needles found in the basket near your hole in the wall. Next, you can take the dynamite and throw it on the ground under Tom's feet. If you run into the mouse hole, there is a tomato trap opposite the entrance, which you can detonate to hit Tom. Or you can run into the barrel and suddenly find yourself back in the room where Tom is lurking for you again, but you're flying in a small plane. Your plane is loaded with light bulbs that you can throw at Tom. You also have steps in your mouse hole that take you to the wall and you can throw eggs at Tom. However, he doesn't give you anything and throws them at you from below as well.

It seems incredible, but your playing field becomes a whole... No, I'm really not kidding, you'll just be forced to play over and over on the same piece. If you don't mind the lack of space, imperfect movement and nerve-wracking controls will definitely knock you to your knees. The movement is limited to horizontal and vertical, and as for the keys, you will most likely lose the fact that you simply will not know what to press. The whole game is a bit saved by possible feasible actions (but not as dizzying as you might expect), which include, for example, throwing dynamite and eggs, fencing with forks for knitting or shooting a tomato out of a trap. With each successful action you get a given number of points and vice versa, if Tom does something to you, you lose some points.