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You are Dan and, armed with only your trusty spade, you must avoid being gobbled up by the monsters. As the game progresses the beasts become smarter and hungrier and you must concentrate harder.

You are underground and on the bottom of the five levels. Ladders extend to the upper levels and both you and the monsters can climb these in either direction. At the bottom of the screen there is a yellow bar labelled 'oxygen', which shows how much oxygen you have left. As your oxygen gets less, the bar gets shorter. When the bar gets to a certain length it will turn red, indicating you have little oxygen left, and an oxygen bottle will appear on one of the levels. To stay alive you must reach the oxygen bottle before the time runs out.

You begin the game with four lives, this number being indicated in the top right hand corner of the screen. You have to keep up a supply of oxygen and score points by killing the monsters that follow you around. To do this you must trap them by digging a hole for them to fall into. Once you have trapped a monster, you have only a very short time to fill in the hole before the monster leaps out. There are four types of monster, scoring, 10, 20, 30 and 40 points depending on how difficult they are to catch.

Dan is moved by using the keyboard but I found the keys were badly chosen and I needed three hands to operate it successfully. A lack of explicit instructions leads to a slow start but the game was quite easy to pick up. An enjoyable game for arcade enthusiasts which incorporates a challenging high score.