The cool calculating cat is out of the bag.

Remember the mystery image several days ago? Well, the cat’s out of the bag – that’s part of the cover artwork for a new Odyssey2 cartridge, Calculator!, debuting at this weekend’s Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee. If you want to see the real deal, Packrat Video Games has a picture posted here – truth be told, it looks better than I thought it would when actually printed out. I almost like the cartridge label better than the manual! As with the previous O2 release by Rene Van Den Enden and Packrat, David “Ozyr” Fleming wrote the manual and I did the artwork. (As a tribute to this continued collective relationship, this cover has a slight in-joke reference to Rene’s O2 Pong game – the mechanical hand punching the calculator buttons is meant to be the same robot hand that’s holding the paddle in the Pong cover art. If Rene ever creates a game that doesn’t lend itself to an appearance by robot appendages, I’m in big trouble.) Calculator! isn’t a game per se – it’s…well…a calculator. Because everyone should balance their checkbook on a membrane keyboard at least once in their lives. Packrat will have it available after the show on their web site, or you can hit the MGC in Milwaukee this weekend.