The Human Rat Race

Two rats in a hedge maze, red on the right and blue on the left, each starting at its home pad on the maze's edge. In RACE TO THE OTHER SIDE, the first rat to reach the other's home wins, and arriving together is a tie. In GRAB THE GOLD, every path is strewn with nuggets; a rat picks one up on every square it walks onto and carries them home to bank them at the current value, 500 at the start and 5 less every second for 60 seconds, so the bigger bank wins. Drones wander the maze, and a rat a drone touches goes back home and drops what it carries. Choose up to nine drones and a VISIBLE or INVISIBLE maze, shown at the end. One player can race against a computer rat.

Controls: Joystick only. Red, on the right, uses controller 1; blue, on the left, controller 2. On the title, push up and down to choose a line, left, right or a button to change it, and press a button on 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, March 1988: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). Machine-language program from the issue's disk. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.