Potty Painter Explained

Potty Painter
Developer:J.F. Cain
Publisher:Rabbit Software
Released:1983
Genre:Maze
Modes:Single-player
Platforms:ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, VIC-20

Potty Painter, also known as Potty Painter in the Jungle, is a video game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and VIC-20 computers and released by Rabbit Software in December 1983.[1] It a clone of the arcade video game Amidar.

Gameplay

The goal of the game is to join the dotted lines around a grid of squares each different in size with each valuing different points. In the meantime the player must avoid enemies who try to capture them. Starting the game, the player has 5 lives and 3 freezes which enable the player to freeze the computer controlled characters for around 10 seconds.

Levels alternate between playing as a monkey against tribesmen and playing as a paint-roller against teddy bears. Completing a level enables the player to play a bonus game which involves guiding a teddy bear to a banana to gain an extra 1000 points.

Notes and References

  1. This Week. Popular Computing Weekly. 2. 48. Sunshine Publications. 1–7 December 1983. 70. 11 February 2020.