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Synopsis

Players must take on the role of a mother cat called Milky who lives in a dangerous metropolis full of dogs. The dogs want to kill Milky before she can save her son Michael who wandered into the city on his own (and got lost). Players must catch the fish to gain temporary invincibility. However, other enemies can still kill the cat such as the fish seller (who is the only humanoid villain in the game), automobiles on the road, with manholes and pylons. The city is divided into roads for automobile traffic and sidewalks for stray dogs. Fish traders completely replace dogs after level 30; causing the invincibility (fish) icon to become redundant.

Unlike the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series of video games (particularly the first NES release which came out four years later in 1989), open manholes kill the player instead of helping them escape from stray dogs. Sewer snakes also come out to kill the player with their venom. Triangular cones can temporarily block the player's progress. The game was aimed at a much younger audience than what was considered "average" in the Nintendo Entertainment System community at that time. Using the classical music song Ballet of Chicks in Their Shells (composed by Modest Mussorgsky) as background music, there is a common theme throughout the game of "dog catches cat, cat catches fish" - imitating the food chain.

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