I’m revisiting Windows 3.1 for today’s OGTDST (Old Games That Don’t Suck Thursday).

Rodent’s Revenge ranks among the frequented games people used to play on their older computers, along side classic titles such as SkiFree (yes, you remember now!).

The point of the game is simple.  Move your little mouse around the playing field.  If you move into a block it will be pushed along with the other blocks in that row.  Cats will constantly try to get to you but can’t move through a adjacent blocks.  The objective is to trap a cat around all sides so that its completely surrounded by blocks.

Its really not that simple in strategy though.  Each time you move a block you are clearing pathways for cats to get to you.  In order for cats to get where you want to get them you have to draw them towards you.  And as levels progress, so do the number of cats.  More cats make it really difficult to operate the field without breaking some sort of wall.

I loved this game and for some reason I cannot decide whether its because I could only play it at school or because it was a really good game.  Its sort of like why people really, really like typing games; school seems to make a lot of games seem much better than they actually are.  I’m sort of split here.  I loved to play it then and recently porting it to Windows I liked it now, but not as much as back then.  It doesn’t suck though, I promise you.  It’s simple give-and-take game and it’s a great little distraction.