## Description
_Grime Z80_ is a remake of the 1984 text mode game Grime for the IBM PC, now
ported to an assortment of 8-bit computers and devices all based on the Zilog
Z80 CPU. Like the unsanitary original, it inhabits the general territory of
Centipede crossed with Conway’s Game of Life: a multi-directional shooter
where you battle an expansion of sloppy ooze which behaves and grows like a
cellular automaton.
The little battleship roams the fixed playfield with its infinite supply of
grime-destroying bullets, which can be shot in four directions (the game
generously does the shooting for you: in the original game auto-fire was
optional — here it isn’t). Mobile enemies travel across the screen and seed
new patches of gooey mold; as the muck spreads and mutates, it spawns slimy
seepage that actively seeks you out. You get three lives, which you lose if
your ship touches one of the moving spores, or gets completely surrounded by
goop.
Grime Z80