I used to call this game "Keystone Cops" back when I played it on a compilation released on PS1 a long time ago. It may as well be the name anyway since it's clearly inspired from it.

One of the few Atari games that I recall playing that made some kind of lasting impact on me as a kid with more modern tech available to him. Look out for those airplanes, kinda hard to catch Harry Hooligan if your face gets taken off by a children's biplane. It's really no wonder the police have such a hard time catching Mr. Hooligan when he's capable of throwing multiple shoppings carts at hypersonic speeds. No telling what this menace will do if he ever decides to expand his horizons beyond simple burglary and con artistry

Would've absolutely seen myself loving this game growing up, if I had been born five years earlier and my first system was an Atari.

The first video game I ever became obsessed with as a kid. I was born in 1998, but grew up on my parents' hand-me-downs, so while every kid around me in the early 2000's was playing on Xbox or Playstation, I was playing the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis lol. Keystone Kapers was always my absolute favorite, though Sonic 2 was close. There was something I just loved about Keystone Kapers and its quick repetitive arcade mechanics that kept me hooked on trying to get further and further, and eventually beat my high scores.

Keystone Kapers isn't a 5/5 game, I would argue it wasn't even a 5/5 when it first came out, though it was definitely very good, don't get me wrong! But this game will always be a 5/5 for me because of the emotional connection I have to it, and how it introduced me to my love for gaming.

5/5