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_...

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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.

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

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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.
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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.
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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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2012 reimaginings of the Scratch Cats drawn by Rat Attack Artist Phil Corbett. #ratattack #scratchcats
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Alternate variations of Sparky's panel.

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Compared to the Flash cartoon, Thumps has a different design in these panels.

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

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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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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".

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.

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

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.

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