# I just recreated Alley Cat – the legendary game from the 80s! 🫨🐈‍⬛

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I just recreated Alley Cat – the legendary game from the 80s! 🫨🐈‍⬛
This week I came across a post where someone took an MS-DOS EXE file, asked Claude to analyze it, and got it to rewrite the whole thing in Python.

I had to try it myself, 
so I pulled out the game "Alley Cat", one of my favorites from childhood. 
I downloaded the EXE file from a game archive site, and opened the Cursor development tool with a "simple" prompt:
👉 "Rebuild this for me, with Pygame!"

And then like magic:
💡 Cursor planned the whole process by itself.
💡 Extracted the content, analyzed, installed libraries, and recreated the code - all without me touching a single line of code!
💡 A quarter of an hour later I could already play a remade version that closely resembles the original.

We're in an era where AI doesn't only help us write code - it understands, interprets, and recreates it from scratch. Every day I'm surprised anew at how far you can get with these capabilities.

🕹️ What's the next game that needs to be recreated?

Original: https://ofershap.github.io/posts/recreating-alley-cat-from-an-ms-dos-exe-with-cursor/
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ofershap_%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%A2-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%96%D7%A8%D7%AA%D7%99-%D7%90%D7%AA-alley-cat-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A7-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%92%D7%93%D7%99-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA-activity-7303340966931800064-0lfk
Published: 2025-03-06T11:09:36.030000+02:00