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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Been seeing alot of Rats resurgence on this platform lately. It is likely this account will be active again sometime soon. In the meantime, go follow my main at @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Happy 26th anniversary to the European release of Rat Attack for Nintendo 64! #ratattack #scratchcats

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Julian "Mr. Zoobles Guy" R2JG @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Happy 1 year to my career of Rat Attack speedrunning. I promise that I still give a damn. I'm just unfortunately dealing with "burnout" on the two things I love, perhaps you could blame it on the ponies, but I would choose not to. #ratattack #scratchcats

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It has come to recent attention that Rat Attack has been rereleased for the first time in 17 years onto GOG.com. Status on what is in this release of this game is to be announced. www.gog.com/en/game/rat_... #ratattack #scratchcats

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Phil Corbett @squidlingking.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Also - look at how much a copy costs a quarter of a century on. I was always destined for cult appeal. #retrogaming #nintendo #videogames #ratattack

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European release of Rat Attack on the Nintendo 64, here is some brand new artwork of the Scratch Cats drawn by game artist Phil Corbett!

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

2/2🧶 It should be noted again that Atomicat has this reverb in their line, albeit cut off. This suggests a double theory that this is from an earlier build of the PS1 game where Atomicat would have been a playable character before becoming a reskin of Banubis.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

1/2🧶 An interesting oddity in the N64 version of Rat Attack is if you lower the music and listen to the voices on the select screen, you can hear the PS1 reverb in Bob Cat, Atomicat and Pearl's lines. A theory suggests these were recorded off of the PS1 version and Pure forgot to disable the reverb.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Sourced from the Digital Press Kit and Rat-Attack.com - discmaster.textfiles.com/view/18637/R... web.archive.org/web/20150415...

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Rat Attack (UK) (Digital Press Kit - Summer '99)

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Screenshots from early builds of Rat Attack featuring an unused Casino level. No level resembles it in the final.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🧶3/3 Unlike the website for Rat Attack, Cheese Design didn't last long as the website closed around 2000-03ish, presumably around the same time Pure Entertainment also did. Cheese Design was never registered as an actual company, which means it may have also just been an internal team.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🧶2/3 Using the Wayback Machine, there is supposed to be a Flash file that plays. This file has unfortunately been lost to time. Unless an archive of it is found, it is unknown what it could have contained.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🧶1/3 One of the handful of "companies that outside of a forgotten PS1/N64 game have been lost to time with zero to no documentation online" is Cheese Design, a company owned by "Andrew Talbot" that (as far as we know) had at the bare minimum of something to do with Rat Attack.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

This is a snippet of the track. The full song can be heard here: tcrf.net/Rat_Attack_(...

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Rat Attack (PlayStation) - The Cutting Room Floor

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The CD for Rat Attack on PS1 has 2 tracks. As usual, Track 1 is the game data. Inserting the game's disc into a CD and setting it to Track 2 will playback this song. Its purpose is unknown, and it does not exist anywhere within Track 1 where the rest of the music is stored. #ratattack #scratchcats

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The source code to the PS1 version of Rat Attack-currently available, handed over from a developer and uploaded to Internet Archive-contains a text document pertaining to Tekken 3. Its purpose is unknown, but perhaps Rat Attack would have-or did-had inspiration from the game. #ratattack #scratchcats

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Julian "Mr. Zoobles Guy" R2JG @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Apologies for the lack of uploads to @rat-attack.bsky.social - been working on other stuff in life. Will be posting to it more often this January.

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Phil Corbett @squidlingking.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I love that this tribute account to the best ever game in video game history exists. Give it some love, this was my first ever job!

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The only other noticeable difference with the PAL version is the PAK folder being around a kilobyte bigger.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

PAK - Game assets in a compressed format XA - The music format used for PlayStation games RATATTAK.EXE - The PS1 executable for Rat Attack SLUS_006.56 (NTSC) / SLES_011.03 (PAL) - Identifier for the game's serial code SYSTEM.CNF - System configuration file Rat Attack is tiny enough to fit on a DS.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sourced from philcorbett.blogspot.com/2012/07/ and philcorbett.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/muff...

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Calamari Royale

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

2012 reimaginings of the Scratch Cats drawn by Rat Attack Artist Phil Corbett. #ratattack #scratchcats 🧶1/2

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🧶3/3 Alternate variations of Sparky's panel.

Transparent background (unfortunately doesn't appear transparent from here, but you can find it from here) https://discmaster.textfiles.com/file/18637/Rat%20Attack%20(UK)%20(Digital%20Press%20Kit%20-%20Summer%20'99).bin/HIRES/NEWFOR99/COMICS/SPARKY.PSD/out-3.png

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🧶2/3 Compared to the Flash cartoon, Thumps has a different design in these panels.

3 panels with Bob Cat and Thumps (from left to right): Bob Cat is going fishing with his younger brother Thumps, the Rats kidnap Thumps with Bob Cat fighting them off and having his left ear bitten off, Bob Cat becomes a boxer.

3 panels of Smokey (from left to right): A nuclear test lab in the middle of the mountains, Smokey screwing in a new invention, Smokey looking forwards with her body turned backward with her right hand in the air.

2 panels of Pearl (from left to right): Two dogs looking suspiciously at Pearl, the other is running away from a now completely grown up Pearl.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🧶1/3 Comic panel-themed drawings of the Scratch Cats. Dated August-October 1998 Some of these are semi-retellings of the Flash cartoons.

Hai Jinx in a stance with leaves being blown in the wind.

Sparky flying out from the Haunted House. Similar to the Flash cartoon.

3 panels of Manx in a city in the night (from left to right): Manx in a menacing stance with his claws out, Manx standing facing forward with his arms behind his back, Manx grinning while front-side facing to the left.

3 panels of Muffy DuPont (from left to right): Muffy is sitting in the lap of Doctor Opolitz, Muffy is pulling her zipper containing her secret identity downward, Muffy DuPont in her normal form with a smile on her face.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🧶2/2 The N64 screenshots in the DPK are dated January 6, 1999. The final build dates for the port were in October/November of the same year. It is safe to assume this change was made very late in development.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🧶1/2 In Rat Attack, there are special Rats that hold letters that spell out "EXTRA". These special Rats can give you an extra life if you eraticate all five. In early N64 screens of the game available from the Digital Press Kit and most files in the final game, they are instead labeled as "BONUS".

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Most of the content you'll be finding here come from the Rat Attack Digital Press Kit which contains a lot of goodies such as art, music, concepts, renders, etc. You can find it at archive.org/details/redu..., or for more compatible sources of media, at discmaster.textfiles.com/browse/18637.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Rat Attack Discord discord.gg/Pp8QwfpP9x A very (at the current moment) early, WIP Discord server dedicated to Rat Attack.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

The Rat Attack Wiki - scratchcats.miraheze.org I've worked very little on this but I hope to work on it a bit more sooner.

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Art of Rat Attack @rat-attack.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Welcome to Art of Rat Attack! This account is dedicated to documenting content about an obscure (and underrated) 5th-gen game for the PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Microsoft Windows that never seemed to catch on after release. Expect more to come on this project soon. Ran by @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social

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Julian "Mr. Zoobles Guy" R2JG @mrzooblesguy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Postcards of the Scratch Cats and other characters from Rat Attack. 1/3🧶 #ratattack #scratchcats

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