Mr. Robot, Screen 'B'

...wasn't that the name of that show with those guys? Oh, yeah! Haven't seen the entire series yet on sale at Fred Meyer (TM), for example. Well, it's the new way they do things in Hollywood. ANYWAY, back to this humble game. I still don't get it... you can walk through layers of these platforms, but you have to jump up to get to the next higher one. We're going to ignore the third dimension here, even though it stands to reason that a robot factory would be in three dimensions. That's one of the reasons why Lode Runner is such a beloved classic. The action takes place in an ant farm, and they don't try to pretend otherwise. Anyway, back to the principle of showmanship in video games. With a game like this, pushing its 16K to the absolute limit, you invariably have to introduce your new features as early on as possible. This time: moving walkways, for lack of a better term. Thankfully, they don't go too fast, so you can walk against them... and you have to. Sorry, SPOILER ALERT. This isn't Level 3 of Hard Hat Mack, after all! Love that game. Why can't I be instead... oops! Sorry. I mean, its three levels are fun and all, but... how are you supposed to keep a gamer on the farm with just three levels? I mean, that's confidence. Okay, I'll spare your curiosity a little... yes, you can fall if you go right instead of left when you're on that little "escalator" staircase near the tippy top of the screen. Not so bad, really! In this game, you die a noiseless, colorful death when you make a stupid mistake like that. Almost worth it! No stupid questions in video games, just stupid deaths.