SPIDERS
by Keith Burton
from ZX Computing Feb/Mar.1986

Keith Burton has a close encounter of the arachnid kind.


As caretaker of Spectrum Manor you have to keep the building
clear of spiders and clear up those nasty creepy webs. There
are three floors to patrol and some idiot has left three
invisible mines on each floor! Fortunately, as you enter
each floor the mines become visible for a few seconds so
that you can make sure you avoid them. The spiders, being
very light footed, do not trigger off the mines.

You have three lives to risk and cleaning up a piece of web
scores one point. Dead spiders, the non-flashing kind, also
score one point but live spiders score a generous
twenty-five points. If you are one of the top five spider
exterminators then you are rewarded with having your name
held for posterity in the high score chart.

So, carefully positioning your fingers over the QZIP keys
for UP, DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT do your bit for mankind in the
battle against these horrid, harmless beasties.

But first you have to type it in ...


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