Happy 1 year to my career of Rat Attack speedrunning.

I promise that I still give a damn. I'm just unfortunately dealing with "burnout" on the two things I love, perhaps you could blame it on the ponies, but I would choose not to.

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It has come to recent attention that Rat Attack has been rereleased for the first time in 17 years onto GOG.com.

Status on what is in this release of this game is to be announced.

www.gog.com/en/game/rat_...

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Also - look at how much a copy costs a quarter of a century on. I was always destined for cult appeal.
#retrogaming #nintendo #videogames #ratattack

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European release of Rat Attack on the Nintendo 64, here is some brand new artwork of the Scratch Cats drawn by game artist Phil Corbett!

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An interesting oddity in the N64 version of Rat Attack is if you lower the music and listen to the voices on the select screen, you can hear the PS1 reverb in Bob Cat, Atomicat and Pearl's lines. A theory suggests these were recorded off of the PS1 version and Pure forgot to disable the reverb.

Screenshots from early builds of Rat Attack featuring an unused Casino level. No level resembles it in the final.

🧶1/3 One of the handful of "companies that outside of a forgotten PS1/N64 game have been lost to time with zero to no documentation online" is Cheese Design, a company owned by "Andrew Talbot" that (as far as we know) had at the bare minimum of something to do with Rat Attack.

The CD for Rat Attack on PS1 has 2 tracks. As usual, Track 1 is the game data. Inserting the game's disc into a CD and setting it to Track 2 will playback this song. Its purpose is unknown, and it does not exist anywhere within Track 1 where the rest of the music is stored.
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The source code to the PS1 version of Rat Attack-currently available, handed over from a developer and uploaded to Internet Archive-contains a text document pertaining to Tekken 3. Its purpose is unknown, but perhaps Rat Attack would have-or did-had inspiration from the game.
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Apologies for the lack of uploads to @rat-attack.bsky.social - been working on other stuff in life. Will be posting to it more often this January.

I love that this tribute account to the best ever game in video game history exists. Give it some love, this was my first ever job!

PAK - Game assets in a compressed format
XA - The music format used for PlayStation games
RATATTAK.EXE - The PS1 executable for Rat Attack
SLUS_006.56 (NTSC) / SLES_011.03 (PAL) - Identifier for the game's serial code
SYSTEM.CNF - System configuration file

Rat Attack is tiny enough to fit on a DS.

2012 reimaginings of the Scratch Cats drawn by Rat Attack Artist Phil Corbett. #ratattack #scratchcats
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Comic panel-themed drawings of the Scratch Cats.
Dated August-October 1998
Some of these are semi-retellings of the Flash cartoons.

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In Rat Attack, there are special Rats that hold letters that spell out "EXTRA". These special Rats can give you an extra life if you eraticate all five.
In early N64 screens of the game available from the Digital Press Kit and most files in the final game, they are instead labeled as "BONUS".

Welcome to Art of Rat Attack!
This account is dedicated to documenting content about an obscure (and underrated) 5th-gen game for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Microsoft Windows that never seemed to catch on after release.
Expect more to come on this project soon.
Ran by @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social

Postcards of the Scratch Cats and other characters from Rat Attack.
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