Barricade

Four to eight robots hunt you across a warehouse yard full of wooden crates inside a steel fence. You cannot fight them: instead, push crates, a whole row at once and in any of eight directions, to build pens around them. A robot with no free cell to step into is trapped, and when every robot is trapped at once the level is won, scoring 100 points per robot plus a bonus that has been running down from 100 since the level began. A robot that reaches you costs one of your four lives and the yard starts over. Each level the robots step more often. Choose how many robots you face on the title.

Controls: Controller 1 or 2. The stick walks the worker in eight directions and pushes crates. On the title, up and down choose a line, left and right set the number of robots, and a button starts.

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 Ahoy! No. 52, April 1988, page 16: original Commodore 64 program by Tony Brantner. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.