Stampede 1981

About

The objective of Stampede is to round up all of the cattle you encounter. To do so, the player must lasso each one in order to capture it. The player is initially only allowed to let two cattle pass; if a third one slips by, the game is over. An important caveat to this is that the player gets one extra free pass for every 1,000 points scored. So, if a player were at 2,000 points and had not yet let any cattle pass, then he or she would be allowed to let four cattle pass before the fifth one ended the game (assuming he or she did not reach 3,000). This makes it possible for an expert player to repeatedly beat the game - as after about 5,000 points or so the game essentially "resets," and the same pattern is repeated.

What is happening now

Stampede is an arcade racing game released for Atari 2600 and Intellivision in 1981, where players navigate obstacle-filled courses at high speed. Recent coverage has been sparse and largely unrelated to the original title - search results have instead surfaced a modern Steam release called Ogre Stampede, a 3D physics-based combat game with entirely different mechanics and subject matter. No meaningful updates regarding the classic arcade racer itself have emerged in current coverage.