ROBOT CONTROL (16K ZX-81)
from Popular Computing Weekly (1 July 1982), page 8

You are living in a world dominated by robots. All the work is done by
robots, while humans follow a hedonistic lifestyle devoted to idle pleasure.

In a society similar to ancient Rome, life has lost its meaning and its
value. Pleasure has become the ultimate goal and blood lust the ultimate
pleasure.

To satisfy this growing desire for blood, a world-wide lottery has been
instituted. Everybody's name is fed into the central computer. You are one of
the unlucky few who has been chosen to compete in 'The Games'.

A miniature radio transmitter has been surgically implanted in your body and
you have been released in an arena. A robot, attuned to the transmitter in
your body, is pursuing you relentlessly. The only way you can escape is by
forcing the robot to step onto a mine. If you position yourself so the mine
lies in the robot's path, it will step onto it and be destroyed.

But, your respite will be brief. If you succeed in evading the first robot,
two more will be released in the arena. If you manage to avoid these two
robots, three more will take their place, and so on.

When run, the arena will appear on the screen. You will be represented by an
H in the top left-hand corner. A robot will appear in the form of an inverse
quotation mark and a mine will appear as a gray square.

To move the H around the screen, use the keys in a square around the S key.

Q W E
 \|/
A- -D
 /|\
Z X C