First post, by guigui10011
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to identify a game I played as a kid on a PC (Windows 95 era), and I found that someone else on DOSGames.com asked the exact same question back in 2014 with no resolution:
https://www.dosgames.com/forum/about20496.html
Since that thread went unanswered, I'm hoping someone here might have better luck.
Here is the information about the game:
- Pac-Man clone, top-down 2D maze, single player
- You play as a THIEF / ROBBER collecting money and diamonds in a maze
- Enemies are POLICE with blue caps, displayed as faces/heads only
- There are 5 robbers total, each with a unique appearance — they serve as your lives. When caught, you switch to the next robber:
—> Robber 1: Black man with dreadlocks and red lips
—> Robber 2: Bald white man
—> Robber 3: Blue-skinned, thin face, short hair
—> Robber 4: Rabbit/buck teeth, yellow-orange coloring
—> Robber 5 (the boss): Called "Roger", green face, sunglasses
- When caught, a jail screen appears with the text "GOTCHA"
- Each robber has their own unique levels
- More police appear in higher levels
- Was part of a compilation floppy disk also containing Digger and a Frogger clone; the disk was labeled "Gotcha" or "Floppy Frenzy" (likely not the actual game title)
The platform is uncertain — it could be a DOS game, a Windows 3.1 executable, a QBasic/compiled BASIC program, or even an obscure Eastern European shareware title.
Thank you in advance