Well, this has to be an awkward reunion of Pitman protagonists...
Did you know that pitman is a slang term for a coal miner from Scotland or Northern England? In fact, the original Pitman game that Yutaka Isokawa designed for the Sharp MZ-700 was about an archaeological explorer pushing rocks and digging through earth to get all the gold in every level. The Game Boy version, while retaining the earth digging and rock pushing elements, changed the plot to a Catboy and Catgirl punching out bad guys to escape a forbidden haunted house, and was launched in North America as Catrap with one level being altered differently being the biggest regional difference.
The word catrap refers to the frequent number of times the player is trapped and needs to reverse their movements.
While Catrap was proposed to be launched in Europe as Power Paws, the game never had an official launch in that region until the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console re-release under the Catrap title in 2011.
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