Our hero in the opus, Venus (who is, we assume, a Flytrap) is a mechanised insect and an inhabitant of the future - that big, violent thing just in front of you. Venus' only mission in life is to travel through this horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up and, er, shoot-'em-up.

That's about it, really. Sometimes when you kill the other nasties they leave behind pods which can be shot to reveal mushrooms (very useful, actually), extra weapons and other desirables. The backgrounds are colourful, as are the character graphics, but there's not a lot to do aside from the shooting, jumping and avoiding. Venus is, unfortunately, yet another of those platform games which can safely be consigned to the "seen it, done it" pile after playing once.