Pesky Painter

Pesky Painter is a video game in the action genre and published by Supersoft originally released in 1984. It is currently playable on Commodore 64.

Pesky Painter is a single screen game based on the arcade game Amidar in which you play the role of Peter the Painter who has three tasks set by the King. The first screen has a grid made up of several rectangles and Peter has to move around the lines and clean the dirt spots. Once a rectangle has no dots around it, the rectangle is filled, but since Peter is known to be lazy, the King's guards move around the lines keeping an eye on Peter. If Peter is touched by a guard then he loses one of the three lives but a press of the fire makes the guards jump but these are limited to three per life. If Peter paints the four corner rectangles, he can chase the guards and catch them for bonus points for a short period of time.

The second task is a bonus game in which you have to feed the King's pet by choosing the correct path from the top of the screen to some bananas at the bottom. The pet moves quickly through several paths and a press of the button allows the pet to move along a path. If the pet reaches a horizontal path, it moves before moving down the next vertical path. If the pet manages to reach the bananas, a bonus is awarded. In the last task, Peter acts as a paintbrush to paint the paths around other rectangles of different sizes with different dots inside each one. Peter can only paint one rectangle at a time and if he passes a rectangle being painted, the brush stops painting and you have to touch a painted line. The mice now move along the paths and, once again, if Peter touches them he loses a life, but he gets three jumps again. Once the tasks are completed, the first screen starts again but with more enemies.

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