The Rats

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The game is generally played as a simulation that allow the player to strategically send emergency forces (rat exterminators, police men, fire men and eventually army troops) to areas where the rat threat has spread and provide them with available equipment. Also the player can get ten available researchers to develop addition weapons, defenses and super weapons to keep the rats at bay and to provide useful information to progress in the game. Should the rat threat reach beyo

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Developer
Hodder & Stoughton · Five Ways Software Ltd.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Release · ZX Spectrum
  • WorldwideApr 01, 1985

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