Dogcatcher

Four stray dogs roam the five storeys of a cut-away brick tenement at night, trotting along the wooden floors and dropping through the holes. You are the dogcatcher: walk the floors and climb the ladders down the holes. Hold the button to put your net out in front of you and let a dog walk into it; the net must face the dog, and any other touch is a bite that sends you back to the street. Carry each dog down to the pound truck at the kerb for 100 points. When all four are in, the truck drives off and returns, and the strays come back faster.

Controls: Controller 1 (or 2): the stick walks left and right on a floor and climbs up and down through the holes; hold a side button to put the net out.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From Ahoy! magazine, September 1986, page 60: original Commodore 64 program by Bob Blackmer. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.