Talk:Zoo Keeper (1983 video game)

For many of us, "Zoo Keeper" is a classic arcade game, not a puzzle game...
I've become a big fan of Wikipedia recently and I've enjoyed looking at the articles on classic arcade games. Zoo Keeper was one of my favorites growing up and I was disappointed when I discovered there was no entry for it (except as a reference to the puzzle game). So, in the wiki tradition, I created this article based on my experiences with the game and a mass of online material from various sources. I'm sure I've missed some stuff but overall I think it's fairly comprehensive.

I credit Phosphor Dot Fossils at http://www.thelogbook.com/phosphor/summer00/z.html for the screenshots of the game used in this article.

- Octiforce 23:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

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Unsourced material
The following is unsourced information:

While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 06:50, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * According to designer John Morgan, the original design for this game called for a crab that walked around a rectangular wall. Eggs inside would bounce around breaking through the wall until they broke free to become tadpoles.  The title of the game was going to be "King Crab".  The eggs were later changed to animals and the crab became Zeke the zookeeper.
 * On the coconut monkey rescue stages, players can exploit a glitch in the game to earn points quickly. The topmost platform (with Zelda and the monkey) can be jumped on and off of repeatedly, and each time Zeke does this, the number of points for landing on the platform doubles (2,500, 5,000, 10,000, and so forth).  Other platform levels only give constant points for each landing.
 * In the Taito Legends instructions for its port of Zoo Keeper, the zookeeper's net is erroneously referred to as a frying pan, stating to collect the frying pan and "hit animals to return them to the zoo". This is probably an honest mistake by present-day Taito writers/editors who misunderstood the item.  The zookeeper's net is supposed to recapture the animals without hurting them, and there is no evidence that Zoo Keeper promotes animal cruelty of any kind.