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Winky Trap

Winky Trap is an arcade action game similar to Pac-Man. You control Winky in a maze; your goal is to eat all dots in order to score points and move on to the next maze. It's a hacked version of Mouse Trap…

31 December 1997

Winky Trap is an arcade developed by CollectorVision Games, released 31 December 1997 on ColecoVision.

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What Winky Trap is

Winky Trap is an arcade game developed by CollectorVision Games and released in 1997. It is available on ColecoVision only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Winky Trap is an arcade action game similar to Pac-Man. You control Winky in a maze; your goal is to eat all dots in order to score points and move on to the next maze. It's a hacked version of Mouse Trap where the characters where replaced from ColecoVision's game Venture. Only 5 games were produced and they all sold over 200$ each.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Winky Trap launched on 31 December 1997, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo and Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Gran Turismo, Klonoa: Door to Phantomile.

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When did Winky Trap come out?
Winky Trap was released on 31 December 1997 for ColecoVision.

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