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The Queen of the hive must be stain and it's your job to do it in Firebird's latest twist to the maze game. The Queen is in the middle of a three-dimensional hive that turns and spirals through eight complex and entangled levels.

You pilot a versatile electro-mechanical Grasshopper ship that runs, jumps and crouches its way through the maze.

Just running through the maze is hard enough without the need to map (to make sure you don't run around in circles) and avoid or blast the nasties that are naturally out to get you. These include swarms of electronic insects, giant demonic jailers and spikes, webs and stings that block your path.

Contact with any of these will drain your energy that can be replenished in you have two or more energy pylons that can be found in the maze to replace your original supply. If you have only one pylon then damage is not repaired. Losing them all brings the inevitable end as your energy is quickly drained away.

The screen display shows your view down the tubes and instruments that show your current energy level, score and any objects, pylons, shields and weapons you may have collected.

Lurking underneath the 3D display is yet another maze game that has been complicated by the unpleasant key controls that make steering the Grasshopper a major achievement.

Finally should you want to save your efforts then you only have to copy down a code number that can be entered when a new game is loaded.