Crackpots

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32K plays 1983 #Action

Crackpots is an Atari 2600 game designed by Dan Kitchen and published by Activision in 1983. It was Kitchen's first game for Activision.

In Crackpots, the player controls Potsy, a gardener. Potsy's Brooklyn building is being overrun by bugs trying to climb inside six windows. The player moves Potsy back and forth along the roof to drop pots on the bugs before they can get close enough to enter the windows.

From Wikipedia's article Crackpots, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Keyboard controls

Atari 2600Player 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
FireZN
Game SelectShift
Game ResetEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Most games start with Game Reset. Paddle games (Breakout, Kaboom!…) need a gamepad stick.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

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Keyboard controls

Atari 2600Player 1Player 2
D-pad↑↓←→IKJL
FireZN
Game SelectShift
Game ResetEnter

Hotkeys

  • 1 Quick save state
  • 2 Quick load state
  • 3 Change save slot

Most games start with Game Reset. Paddle games (Breakout, Kaboom!…) need a gamepad stick.

Gamepads are detected when you press a button. Remap any key from the emulator’s Controls menu (gear icon).

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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Pixel Verdict

CrackpotsAtari 2600

3.5 Good job

Players 78 · 27 votes

No critic scores found for this game: this is the players' rating.

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What the critics said

  • In a retrospective look, the Video Game Critic gave a letter grade of C: "It's a shame Crackpots only has one skill level because once you get the hang of it, the game tends to run long. Still, sharp graphics and thoughtful gameplay make this one worth a look."

    — The Video Game Critic

From the Reception section of Wikipedia's Crackpots article, under CC BY-SA 4.0. The words are the critics'; their full reviews are on the publishers' pages.

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  1. 1.00+
  2. 1.540+
  3. 2.050+
  4. 2.560+
  5. 3.068+
  6. 3.575+
  7. 4.080+
  8. 4.585+
  9. 5.090+

5.0 Outstanding! · 4.0 Great job! · 3.0 Good job · 2.0 Could be better · 1.0 Wake me up when it's over · A thumbs-up adds half a point. Our own drawings, in the spirit of the faces GamePro magazine used in the '90s.

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