Tom & Jerry's Cat-astrophe (DOS)

Tom & Jerry's Cat-astrophe

Platform: DOS Year: 1990 Developer: Softie, Inc.

Tom & Jerry's Cat-astrophe is a single-player action game with many elements from the Tom & Jerry cartoon The Yankee Doodle Mouse. For a given time, you play as Jerry Mouse and achieve as many points as possible.

Screenshots

Always smiling on titles. I used to misread "number of players"... The mouseketeer challenges to a duel. One way to skin a cat. Cutscene with 1-bit PCM! Practice does make perfect!

Music

The game features two patriotic American marches and several sound effects, a few unused.

The driver is probably a standard of the developer, Softie. It supports 3 tracks of music and sound effects. On the 1-voice PC Speaker, only the most important track is heard at a time, while any other is muted. This is how the vehicle sound effect can pause and resume when a bonus sound effect plays.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	Length	Listen	Download
01	Menu	Edmund L. Gruber	Unknown	0:37		Download
02	Top Commanders	John Philip Sousa	Unknown	0:25		Download

Credits

• Ripper: N/A
• Recorder: Professor Chaos
• Game Credits:
  • Not Credited Composer: Edmund L. Gruber
  • Not Credited Composer: John Philip Sousa
  • Not Credited Arranger: Unknown
  • Not Credited Foley Artist: Unknown
  • Not Credited Programmer: Unknown

(Game lacks audio credits.)

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Game Rip

This rip is missing songs.

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All audio is hard-coded and requires a programmatic or log format that outputs to the PC Speaker. However, this is beyond the scope of this site.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

The explosion sample is always heard, but sounds different depending on your PC's speed.

Pressing the F1 key (at any point starting with the menu) mutes or unmutes all other audio. Their driver is called by a programmable interval timer at 59.923 Hz and therefore sounds the same on every PC.

Releases

USA Title: Tom & Jerry - Yankee Doodle's CAT-astrophe Platform: DOS Released: 1990-1?-?? Publisher: Hi Tech Expressions

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/tom-jerry-yankee-doodles-cat-astrophe - MobyGames.
• gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/216055-tom-and-jerry-yankee-doodles-cat-astrophe - GameFAQs.