RADs

Ionic storms have spun the relay spindles of a deep-space communication network out of line. You are a RADS repair droid. Fly to a spindle, hold the button and push the stick right to wind its gauge up or left to wind it down. Every spindle must end exactly full or exactly empty, with as many full ones as the key at the bottom of the screen shows. Storm cells rise from below: sparks and hunters chase you, scramblers knock a gauge out of line, and ion orbs, when shot, slow the storm for a while. One touch from a spark or hunter knocks the droid down and costs a life. Shoot with the button away from the spindles. Nine layouts repeat, harder each time. Four droids.

Controls: Use controller 1 or 2. The stick flies the droid. On a spindle, hold either button and push right to fill or left to empty; elsewhere the button shoots a bolt the way the droid faces. On the title, up and down choose and a button selects.

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, February 1988: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.