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Crackpots 
Developer(s) Activision, Inc. Publisher(s) Activision, Inc. Designer(s) Dan Kitchen Platform(s) Atari 2600 Release date(s) May 16, 1983 Genre(s) Fixed Shooter Mode(s) Single player, multiplayer Media/distribution Cartridge Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983. Crackpots was bundled with the Activision Anthology release in 2002 for the PlayStation 2.
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Gameplay
In Crackpots, you play as Potsy a gardener. Potsy's Brooklyn building is being overrun by bugs trying to climb inside six different windows. You move Potsy back and forth along the roof to drop pots on the bugs before they get too close 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 you'll move on to a faster-paced level. Play then resumes until your building crumbles to the ground. Whenever you allow six bugs to enter the windows, one of the building's six layers will disappear and you'll begin the next wave closer to the ground.
Release and reception
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[1]Crackpots was released May 16, 1983.[1] It was later released on compilation packages including Activision Classics (1998) for the PlayStation and the Activision Anthology (2002) for the PlayStation 2.
Crackpots was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in June 2010.
References
Notes
- ^ a b "allgame ((( Crackpots > Overview )))". Allgame. http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:8192. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
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