Keystone Kapers 1983

Is it still worth playing?

A 1983 platformer for the Atari 2600, themed on the Keystone Cops, in which the police officer Keystone Kelly chases the escaped thief Harry Hooligan through the four floors of Southwick's Emporium. Kelly moves left and right, jumps and ducks shopping carts, beach balls and toy biplanes. He follows Harry on a mini map at the bottom of the screen, where Kelly is the black dot and Harry the white one, and changes floors by elevator and escalator. Lives are lost when time runs out, when Kelly hits a biplane or when Harry reaches the roof. Each catch scores, with points for the time left and for items collected. A chase through a department store, read from a map at the bottom of the screen, is still a clear goal today.