Moon Rescue

Four astronauts are stranded on the moon, two on the plateaus at the edges and two on landing pads in the valley. Fly your probe down from the mothership past four lanes of drifting rocks, the odd lanes moving right and the even ones left, each at its own speed. Land next to an astronaut to take them aboard, one at a time, and fly back up into the mothership's dock to save them. A probe that hits a rock, leaves the screen, touches the ground away from a landing place or comes up anywhere but the dock is lost along with its passenger. Counters show astronauts saved and lost. When all four of a set are saved or lost, a new set waits below and you earn a bonus probe. You start with three probes.

Controls: Use either joystick. Push up or down to launch the probe and set its drift; any direction steers while held. On the title, push up and down to choose and press a button to start.

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, December 1986: original Commodore 128 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.