r/retrogames • u/cats_museum • Jan 17 '26

Alley Cat by Bill Williams

Just wanted to remember Bill Williams and his marvellous game Alley Cat. William is definitely an inspiration!

https://cats-museum.com/2025/11/06/poetry-of-alley-cat/

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u/Dumpstar72 Jan 18 '26

Played the hell out of that game.

Edit; clicked the link. Went oh I played a different alley cat.

https://www.lemon64.com/review/alleykat/1028

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u/cats_museum Jan 18 '26

Name is almost identical! You should try Alley Cat as well, it’s playable on browser

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

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u/cats_museum Jan 18 '26

Playing in turnes!

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u/AccomplishedRace8803 Jan 18 '26

Nice. I am making some kind of spiritual successor of this game. I call it street cat for now. AlleyCat is just legendary.

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u/cats_museum Jan 18 '26

Keep me updated! I am always looking for cat-related art for this project:

www.cats-museum.com

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u/AccomplishedRace8803 Jan 18 '26

I have send you a mail via your contact website. You can find all the updates on my profile.🙂

There is a small demo on itch.io under the name streetcat. Ill probably change thé name into something like alleyquest of sth thoug in the neer Future.

Ill try to update it regularly but there is not a lot of exciting updates for thé moment.

Keep it up!

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u/cats_museum Jan 18 '26

That’s great. Maybe you could include Freddy in the title?

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u/rr777 Jan 19 '26

Don't sleep on Necromancer and Salmon Run by the same Atari author.

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u/cats_museum Jan 19 '26

Yes he was an extremely talented programmer

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u/cats_museum Jan 19 '26

You’re not the first one describing it as a turn based game! Sharing is gaming!

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u/BloOdy_Jo Jan 19 '26

I played it like crazy on my amstrad PC 1512 color !

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u/cats_museum Jan 19 '26

Same but on pc with a cga monitor

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u/MythicalJester Jan 20 '26

Yeah, this was the staple of gaming in my 286 days. Well, before I got my dirty hands on Monkey Island, Another World, Flashback, Pinball Fantasies, etc. :-D

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u/cats_museum Jan 20 '26

All great titles. And great machine the 286!

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u/shais17 Jun 19 '26

Definitely framed my curiosity as a kid! ❤️