Step On It

The Whappie Manufacturing Company was built on an old forest, and the Ums, fuzzy creatures that multiply fast, never left. Mr. Wooder hires you to clear each level of the plant so the stock can go on the platforms; pesticides are banned, so Spabber hands you four boots. Your boot hops diagonally in an arc across a lattice of platforms. Land on a baby Um for 25 tebos. The mother Um hops from platform to platform: touch her and you lose a boot, and where she lands a new baby may appear. Clear a level for a bonus, and a spare boot if you lost none.

Controls: The four diagonals hop (straight pushes do nothing, as in the listing, which reads only the diagonal codes). The button starts and plays again; on the title, left and right choose START or CREDITS.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a faithful adaptation of the published rules. From Ahoy! magazine, August 1986, page 39: original Commodore 64 program by Penny DeGroff. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.