Scrapyard Dog

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Scrapyard Dog is a scrolling platform game published by Atari Corporation for the Atari 7800 in 1990, followed by an Atari Lynx port in 1991.

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

Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

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

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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Keyboard controls

LynxPlayer 1
D-pad↑↓←→
BZ
AX
Option 1A
Option 2S
PauseEnter

Hotkeys

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

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

Emulator help & troubleshooting

2.5 Could be better

Players 66 · 22 votes

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

Review scorecard

  1. Graphics 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  2. Sound 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  3. Control 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback
  4. Fun Factor 2.5 out of 5 Overall fallback

Overall fallback: Players 66 · 22 votes. The same 66/100 overall rating fills missing categories using the face scale; these are not separate category scores. Player rating; no critic scores available.

What the reviews talk about

Key wordscheapcutedifficultfun

What the critics said

  • He wrote that, "Despite the cute graphics and the simple plot, this title offers good clean fun for players of all ages" and gave an 8 out of 10 score.

    — IGN, 1999

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

Scores

  • GamePro (7800) 19 / 25
  • IGN 1999 (Lynx) 8.0 / 10
  • Aktueller Software Markt (Lynx) 4 / 12
  • Atari Gaming Headquarters (7800) 7 / 10
  • Consolemania (Lynx) 76 / 100
  • Consoles + (Lynx) 89%
  • Hobby Consolas (Lynx) 87 / 100
  • Joystick (Lynx) 79%
  • Micromanía (Lynx) 51 / 60
  • Play Time (magazine) (Lynx) 75%
  • Player One (Lynx) 65%
  • Power Play (Lynx) 51%
  • ST Format (Lynx) 73%

From the review table of Wikipedia's article. The face takes, first that applies: the Metascore for this platform, GameRankings' average, our average of the critics (one number per publication, a panel averaged), one review alone, the players' rating. Critics and players are never mixed.

Full reviews

GamePro face key

  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

GamePro named the five whole-number faces; a thumbs-up adds half a point to the same caption. GamePro’s original rating-face design, adapted from Ryan Quintal’s 2018 vector recreation; cleanup for YouConsoles.

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