Cave of the Ice Ape

Your true love Maxine vanished on a trip to the Himalayas, and you have found her held prisoner in an ice cave by a huge ape-like creature. The cave has five corridors between jagged ledges of ice, each with gaps to pass through. You start at the bottom right and move freely in any direction, but touching the ice is fatal. The ape rolls a snowball along the corridors, back and forth, dropping it to the next corridor at each end; touching it is fatal too. A box of TNT waits somewhere in the cave, and a new one appears when you take it. Collect three to rescue Maxine for 100 points; the snowball then rolls faster. Each rescue must be done within 40 seconds. A death loses the TNT you were carrying, and you have four lives.

Controls: Either controller: the joystick moves the explorer. On the title, up and down choose 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. 42, June 1987, page 37: original Commodore 64 program by James C. Hilty. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.