Things in the Dark

Your robot patrols a strange Dark World, running over gremlins, blockheads, snakes and graps for points before the turn counter reaches zero. Norfs can appear anywhere. They never attack, but bumping one zaps both it and your robot, and as they fill the screen you may have to sacrifice a robot to escape a ring of them. A grap is safe only until its counter runs out and it changes colour.

Controls: The stick moves the robot; fire freezes and continues the action.

ColecoVision version credited in the project source to Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a port of the published listing. From COMPUTE! magazine, December 1984: original program by Scott Baker; Commodore and IBM by Kevin Mykytyn, Apple by Rob Terrell, TI-99/4A by Patrick Parrish. Published for Atari, Commodore 64, VIC-20, IBM PC/PCjr, Apple, TI-99/4A. This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release. Amy Studio's project documentation acknowledges AI assistance in its development tools and example cleanup; no AI credit specific to this title was found.