Pickaxe Pete

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Pickaxe Pete (Europe) Pick Axe Pete! (US)
Publisher(s)	Philips Magnavox
Designer(s)	Ed Averett[1]
Platform(s)	Philips Videopac (Europe) Magnavox Odyssey² (US)
Release	1982
Genre(s)	Platform

Pickaxe Pete is a platform game released as cartridge number 43 for the Philips Videopac console. It was published in North America for the Magnavox Odyssey² as Pick Axe Pete!. In Brazil, Pickaxe Pete was re-branded as Didi na Mina Encantada (Didi in the Enchanted Mine) for the Odyssey.^[2] Pickaxe Pete was designed by Ed Averett, who wrote the majority of the games for the system.^[1]

A U.S. national competition, "The Pick Axe Pete Pick-Off," was held at the World's Fair in October 1982.^[3][4]

Gameplay[]

The player controls a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and starts off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. There are three doors from which boulders are coming, bouncing down the mine-shafts; every time Pete destroys one of these he gains 3 points, although the axe wears out after a while and disappears. When two boulders collide, they explode, and out comes either a pick-axe which floats to the bottom of the screen, a key which floats to the top, or nothing. If Pete has no axe, the player can either jump over boulders (gaining him 1 point), or get to the bottom of the mine to retrieve a new axe (gaining a 5-point bonus). If Pete collects a key then he can enter the doors, which lead him to the next level.^[3]

References[]

External links[]

• Pickaxe Pete can be played for free in the browser at the Internet Archive

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