A fast-moving action game in which a bomb must be defused before time runs out.
The screen displays an 11 x 11 grid on which appear skulls, flags, the bombs and your man. Using the keyboard to control movements, the man may be moved up, down, left or right. As each square is crossed, it is blanked out and may not be crossed again unless "slid" over. Sliding, however, may only be done left or right. Landing on a square with a flag scores bonus points, on one with a skull loses a life.
As the game starts, a digital display on the TNT square begins the countdown. When a total of five have been disarmed, a bonus screen is entered. Here your man zooms rapidly across and down a grid, on the bottom line of which are skulls, except for one square where there's a flag. This must be reached to save a life.
The game continues on a different "sheet" which has even more skulls and on the fifth there's also a stamping boot to avoid!
A sufficiently high score qualifies you to enter the Hall of Fame, among those other greats such as Popeye and - Bagpuss?
7th February 1984
