While inspired by the platforms and ladders of Donkey Kong, Pick Axe Pete! Three doors leading to deeper parts of the mine are displayed, and from them, gold bearing rocks will burst in random intervals. Classic old school platform fun that youre bound to fall in love with! Pick Axe Pete can dodge the boulders if you move the joystick and then press the action button. Pick Axe Pete! That's it! Pick Axe Pete can dodge the boulders if you move the joystick and then press the action button. Pick Axe Pete is in the Misty Mountain Mine, trying to strike it rich. Pickaxe Pete is similar in many ways to Donkey Kong. The trick is to find them. The player controls Pick Axe Pete in a platformed mine. 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. Use your trusty pick axe, ropes and dynamite and go on a glorious hunt for treasure.But beware: spiders, bats, bears, skeletons and nasty falls all stand in your way. You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. Pickaxe Pete. Pick Axe Pete is so strong the picks keep breaking every once in a while - and if Pick Axe Pete gets bowled over by a boulder, the game is over. The trick is to find them. in the USA) is cartridge number 43 in the official Magnavox/Philips line of video games for the Philips Videopac. (in USA) is a Magnavox game very similar to Donkey Kong and others games that uses the same mechanic (fixed screen and some determined things to do) In Brazil, the game was released with the title: "Didi Na Mina Encantada". doesn't much resemble the gameplay of Nintendo's arcade classic. You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. Pickaxe Pete (or Pick Axe Pete! There are (more or less) safe places to stay on each of the playfields. As the titular miner, players dash about horizontal platforms with a pickaxe, bashing rolling boulders for points. Pick Axe Pete is so strong the picks keep breaking every once in a while - and if Pick Axe Pete gets bowled over by a boulder, the game is over. Pick Axe Pete (in Europe) or Pete Axe Pete! When Pete's pick breaks he will be crushed by the rocks unless he ducks or jumps away. is a single-screen platformer starring the titular miner. That's it! There are (more or less) safe places to stay on each of the playfields.