Acorn Programs


Babysitter

 
Published in Acorn Programs #4

Babysitter

Here is the winning entry in the music competition announced in our February/March issue. Babysitter was written for the BBC B by P. A. Baranek, or Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

In this lively maze game, your job is to look after the baby. You have left it in the front garden to sleep in its pram while you go inside to pick up all the toys.

The baby will sleep only so long as its music box is playing, so before the tune ends you must dash back and start the box again. Otherwise the baby will wake and you will be fired.

If you manage to collect all the toys in the house, you win 1,000 points. Then the game becomes more complicated as a new set of toys appears and the babysnatcher tries to sneak up and grab the baby.

P. Baranek