Brief

Crash-landing your spacecraft on an alien planet, you find yourself taken prisoner and dumped into an arena littered with dormant lizards and other hostile creatures. Battle to the death with Killer Bees, Red Devils and Poison Orbs, blasting them with your laser bullets, or setting the lizards onto them by firing at their dormant pods.

The bullets will bounce off the walls of the arena, and can destroy you as well as the enemy. Keep an eye on the lizards, too, to make sure they don't get too close - they will pursue the nearest creature, even if that happens to be you!

The Game

Use your laser to destroy all of the creatures in the arena. In the first round you will encounter the Killer Bees, which can be killed with a direct hit, or by a lizard that hatches from one of the pods scattered around the arena. A lizard will hatch when the pod is hit by one of your laser bullets, and will immediately pursue the creature nearest to it, even if that happens to be you!

Later screens include Red Devils and Poison Orbs, and these are only destroyed when they are caught by one of the lizards. In fact you should avoid hitting Red Devils and Poison Orbs directly, as this will only make them chase you more intently.

A hit from any bullets, yours or an opponent's, will turn the lizard back into a pod so you will have to keep an eye on your lizard until it has achieved your objective. All bullets bounce around the arena until they hit something, so beware of any strays as even your own are lethal, to you as well as to your enemies.

Game Controls

Z - Rotate Left, X - Rotate Right, SHIFT - Move Forward, RETURN - Fire

Q/S - Sound Off/On, ESCAPE - Restart Game

Your laser can also be manoeuvred using the joystick. Move to the left or right to rotate the laser and push forward to move it; to fire bullets, press the fire button.

Scores

Each time you successfully destroy all the creatures in the arena, you will be presented with a more difficult screen with more opponents.

You begin the game with three lasers and you receive an extra laser each time you complete a screen until you have completed all the possible screens. At that point, the screen sequence will be repeated but you will not receive any more lasers.

A table of the eight highest scores is displayed at the end of each game.

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