Video game · 1985

The Rats

Released 1 April 1985 on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum

Developer: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Made in: London, United Kingdom
Genre: Strategy, Adventure
Themes: Horror

About The Rats

The game is generally played as a simulation that allow the player to strategically send emergency forces (rat exterminators, police men, fire men and eventually army troops) to areas where the rat threat has spread and provide them with available equipment. Also the player can get ten available researchers to develop addition weapons, defenses and super weapons to keep the rats at bay and to provide useful information to progress in the game. Should the rat threat reach beyond the London limits, the Research center, the Government center or Harris' apartment or if all emergency forces are lost, the game is over.

Summary: IGDB.