Apple Hunt

You are a smiling face in a forest. Eat the apples and avoid the trees and the monster, which wanders at random and eats any tree, apple or ruby it walks over. Walking into a tree or meeting the monster costs a man. Five apples finish a wave, and a ruby finishes it at once for 3000 points; apples are worth 50 to 500 each. Time is short: the time bar turns red near the end, a wave finished before then earns a time bonus, and running out costs a man. A zap destroys everything in the eight cells around you and resets the time; catch the monster in it for 1000 points and the wave is over. Each wave has more trees, the edges wrap around, and an extra man and zap come every five waves.

Controls: Use either controller. The stick moves the face, which keeps walking while the stick is held, and either button lets off a zap.

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 reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, April 1985: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.