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Re: Looking for the Game "Nine Lives"

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From: steve wells
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:29
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> I've got what appears to be a demo of the game "Top Cat's Nine Lives" and 
> attempted to find out if a complete game was ever released commercially.
> What appears to be the related software companies are "Frames" and "ARC".
> It's a fun game with a cat jumping around, rescuing other cats but I have
> never come across any info on the game itself.

Actually it's just 'Nine Lives' - the top cat's bit is the high-score
table 8-)

It's a very nice little game that, and apparently was mistakenly released
into the PD.  But, the version I have has walls all around the current area,
and once you've rescued 2-cats (or is it 1??)  You are stuck!

Atari threw a tantrum, and de-released this, as well as NEO-Chrome, and
a lot of other software, which was claimed as PD.  (Although, NEO-Chrome
at that stage had been available for at *least* 2-years in the Public
Domain).

ARC is actually Atari's own Label, I presume ARC stands for Atari something
or other!

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 | O O    If I told you how much I needed this,            |       |||       |
 |  o     I wouldn't have time to eat it.    Zaphod B.     |       ||| TARI  |
 | \_/    Steve Wells - Wellington, New Zealand.           |      / | \      |
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From: wells_s@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (steve wells)
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Subject: Re: Looking for the Game "Nine Lives"
Date: 19 Dec 1992 04:29:59 GMT
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