- Pickaxe Pete
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title = Pickaxe Pete
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developer =Magnavox
publisher = Magnavox/Philips
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released = 1982
genre = Action
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platforms = Odyssey²/Videopac
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input ="Pickaxe Pete" (or "Pick Axe Pete!" in the USA) is cartridge number 43 in the official Magnavox/Philips line of video games for the
Philips Videopac ."Pickaxe Pete" is similar in many ways to Donkey Kong. You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start 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, you 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 he collects a key then he can enter the doors, which lead him to the next level.
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