Cats 'n' Dogs

A yard holds seven rows of seven doghouses. The cats and the dogs take turns dropping a pet into one of the seven columns, and it falls to the lowest free doghouse. Four pets of one kind in a line, across, up and down, or diagonally, win the game. With the DOG CATCHER switched on, after every turn he hides in a random empty doghouse; a pet that falls into his house is caught and carried off, and the turn is lost. He goes home once four or more columns are full. A full yard is a tie. A match ends when one side has won three games, and the loser of each game starts the next. Play a friend, or play the cats against the computer's dogs.

Controls: Use either controller. Push left or right to move the pet above the yard, holding to repeat, and press a button to drop it. On the title, up and down choose, left and right or a button change a setting, and a button on PLAY starts.

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 COMPUTE!'s Gazette, January 1988: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.