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You're a mouse planting bombs in maze-like rooms, trying to outsmart cats while grabbing cheese—it's chaotic at first, but nailing the perfect trap is weirdly rewarding. The pixel art's charmingly rough and the music's way catchier than it needs to be.
Mouser is a 1983 Nintendo Entertainment System game developed and published by Nintendo. It arrived early in the console's life, a time when many games were built around simple, repeatable concepts that tested reflexes and pattern recognition more than complex storytelling.
You control a small mouse navigating a series of single-screen rooms. Your goal is to collect all the cheese in each stage while avoiding enemy cats. Your primary tool is the ability to plant bombs, which you use to either eliminate the cats or blow open walls to create new pathways. The challenge comes from the cats' persistent patrols and the limited time bombs take to explode, forcing you to plan your movements carefully. It's a game of tense, quick decisions where a single mistake often means starting the room over. Successfully clearing a stage by outsmarting every enemy provides a genuine, quiet satisfaction.
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