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Mouse Trap is a 1981 arcade game released by Exidy, similar to Pac-Man. It was ported to three home systems by Coleco; Coleco's ColecoVision, Mattel's Intellivision, and the Atari 2600.
A Manic Miner clone of the same name was released for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1987.
Many differences between Pac-Man and Mouse Trap are aesthetic: the dots become cheese, the player is a mouse, the ghosts are cats, and power pills are bones that turn the player into a dog.
Two distinct player forms creates a relatively complex food chain for a video game. There are other functional differences as well:
* The player can open and close the yellow, red, and blue sets of doors at the press of a matching colored button.
* The player can store dog bones for later use at his or her discretion by pressing a fourth button — a large round "Doggie Button" with a picture of the dog's head on it.
* The four ghosts are replaced by six cats, worth 100 points for the first cat eaten, 300 for the second, 500 for the third, 700 for the fourth, and 900 for the fifth and subsequent cats. Point values reset when another bone is used. Each cat eaten spawns a slightly faster replacement.
* A seventh monster, a hawk, will eat both mouse and dog. Only the mid-screen "IN" field stops the hawk, by causing it to move randomly instead of chasing the player, but this will beam the mouse into one of the four corners.
* Bonus point prizes do not appear at intervals, but are constantly available. Eating one triggers the next in the series to appear. Point values start at 1000 for the first prize and increase by 200 for each subsequent prize, with the last prize being worth 7200 points. When the last prize is eaten, the sequence restarts. There are thirty-two in all: a wedge of Swiss cheese, a paperclip, a safety pin, a key, an apple, a trophy, a candlestick, a pair of scissors, a pair of pliers, a pair of eyeglasses, a clock, a bottle, a gem, a bugle, a screw, a hammer, a diamond ring, a light bulb, a sewing needle, a fork, a thimble, a knife, a cocktail glass, a fishbone, a pear, a peanut, a die, a telephone handset, a die with "C A F" on the faces, a spool of thread, a teacup, and a pistol.
* There is a 10,000 point bonus for clearing the board of all cheese. A player who ends a stage as a dog will begin the next stage in that form.
Coleco ported Mouse Trap to its own ColecoVision console, with fewer prizes, an option to leave the hawk out, and different sound effects. Coleco's Intellivision port adds an audio warning when a cat is about to enter the maze, but suffers from blocky graphics.
Coleco also ported Mouse Trap to the Atari 2600, simplifying graphics and gameplay. The maze is more squat with brighter walls, and doors form a single colored set that flickers. Gameplay basics are the same, but the hawk, the "IN" area, and the bonus prizes are missing, there are three cats instead of six, and all doors move at once. Scoring is also reduced significantly: cheese is worth 1 point instead of 10 points, cats are worth 10 points and do not increase in value, and clearing a maze awards only 100 points.
In 1982, Buckner & Garcia recorded the song "Mousetrap" using sound effects from the game, and released it on the album Pac-Man Fever. When they rerecorded the album in 1999, they were unable to find a machine and used sounds from nature, instead.
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She's here! And so very adorable :-) even tinier than I thought! But I really do love her already ^-^
The wood box is hand made from Japan.
There is 24 yubinuki is done, pls leave the comments for me.
Thanks.
Materical: Silk thread
Size: 2 CM
my first yubinuki,
you can read about Japanese thimbles here www.temarikai.com/yubinuki/yubinukigeneral01.html
to learn how to make yubinuki aslo here mamercerie.blogspot.com/
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Made some silicone thumb and finger thimble for working with hot things. out of a hackable RTV silicone called Sugru, sugru.com/
taken for an instructable
www.instructables.com/id/Sugru-Thimbles-for-manipulating-...
I am on the Chesapeake Bay fishing - photo sent from my Blackberry.
Here's some light info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thimble_Shoal_Light
The last remaining structure on what was O'Brien's farm, in St. John's, Newfoundland. This saltbox house is now empty, after the death of the last O'Brien brother. A unique structure in a secluded location of the city. I have a series of photos I will post soon.
More information on the history of this great property.
Irish emigrant John O'Brien designed Thimble Cottage on Nagle's Hill in St. John's around 1850. O'Brien had emigrated from Ireland between 1815-1820 and began to clear 14 acres of land in Freshwater Valley, now located in St. John's.
O'Brien took advantage of a measure by Newfoundland's Governor, Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, to ease the laws against commercial farming in the early nineteenth century. O'Brien established a commercial dairy farm and sold his milk to housewives and shopkeepers in the west end of St. John's. He nearly lost the farm in 1849 after a legal battle fined him £12 for an assault. O'Brien claimed he could not pay the fine and, consequently, his farm was to be sold at a public auction. A public uproar ensued caused by an editorial in Robert John Parson's Newfoundland Patriot in support of O'Brien. As a result, no one submitted a bid on the farm and O'Brien was able to keep his property.
The present structure was the third home built by John O'Brien on his farm. Built for his son Timothy, it would usually take two winters to gather sufficient materials from the nearby forest to build such a dwelling. He made the chimney from locally-gathered stone and sheltered the structure with locally-made spruce shingles. The two-and-a-half-storeyed salt-box house has a sloping roof which makes the structure a single storey at the rear where the kitchen is located. The dwelling is typical of a nineteenth century Newfoundland Irish farmhouse. It is the sole survivor of approximately 20 similar homes that were once common in the Freshwater Valley area.
The O'Briens fought against the forces of modernization to preserve the farm that has been in the family for nearly 180 years. They had rejected million-dollar offers made by potential developers and resolutely defended their property against industrial and residential intrusion.
The Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador rewarded the efforts of Aloysius and his brothers to preserve their land and home in May 1992 when Thimble Cottage was declared a Registered Heritage Structure. This structure was also awarded the Southcott Award for Heritage Restoration by the Newfoundland Historic Trust.
The last remaining brother, Aloysius, recently passed, leaving the home empty. The city has purchased the property with a plan to preserve it.
Made some silicone thumb and finger thimble, for hot things. out of a hackable RTV silicone called Sugru, sugru.com/
taken for an instructable www.instructables.com/id/Sugru-Thimbles-for-manipulating-...