Zoo Keeper (1983 video game)

This article is about the 1983 arcade game. For the puzzle game, see Zoo Keeper (2003 video game). For other uses, see Zookeeper (disambiguation).
Zoo Keeper
Arcade flyer
Developer(s)Taito America
Publisher(s)Taito America
Designer(s)Keith Egging
John Morgan
Programmer(s)John Morgan
Mark Blazczyk
Rex Battenberg[1]
Composer(s)Tom Fosha
Platform(s)Arcade
Release1983
Genre(s)Action, platform
Mode(s)1-2 players alternating

Zoo Keeper is an arcade video game created by Taito America and released in 1983. The player controls Zeke, a zookeeper, attempting to rescue his girlfriend Zelda from a zoo where the animals have escaped from their cages. The majority of the game takes place on a screen where the player builds a wall to keep animals in the zoo – jumping escaped animals to avoid contact. Two different platform game levels are interspersed every few rounds. Zoo Keeper was sold as a conversion kit for Taito's Qix.[2]

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  2. ^ "Zoo Keeper". The Arcade Flyer Archive. Taito America. 1983.