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A power-up time is required for the player's weapon, leading to the player holding a position in order to charge the weapon while stalking (or being stalked). The phantoms can take multiple hits (usually two). Combined with their creepy ability to get in close and blind-side the player, this is
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by shooting them. As each level is cleared, a new maze is created, and the phantoms became harder (requiring more shots) to kill.
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The game combines a relatively sedate pace and a then-rare
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has been cited as an early forerunner of the modern
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Developer(s)
Med Systems
Publisher(s)
Microdeal
Designer(s)
Ken Kalish
Platform(s)
Dragon 32/64
TRS-80 Color Computer
1982
Genre(s)
Maze
first-person shooter
Single-player
video game
TRS-80 Color Computer
Dragon 32/64
Ken Kalish

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