The instructions explain that you have to climb ten flights of stairs, jump over the obstacles or evade them with your barrier, get to the top and escape with the friendly UFO before your energy runs out. You control a cute little figure and make him climb stairs. With a quick push on the left edge of the attack button, you can make him jump, or the right edge to make him invincible for a few seconds.

Even on the first screen, there is a huge number of nasties, including spiders, mice, spider's webs and monsters wandering around and, at first, it can be frustrating as you lose your three lives in a matter of seconds. But if you persevere, you will eventually get to the top to get rescued by the UFO, then there's the next screen where there's even more spiders, mice, monsters...

The characters are well-defined and animation is good. However, the sprite feature is not used to its fullest. In fact, some characters aren't even sprites, but hardened arcade players could do worse than buying this highly original game.

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