## Description
Monkeys huddle in great masses above the top of the screen, hoping anxiously
to get to some simian homeland beneath the bottom. Their only safe means of
passage, however, is a pole controlled by the player’s mouse. This is no
ordinary pole, but one bisected into two segments — a modification needed in
order to periodically disengage the pole and maneuvre the segments around
floating bombs which meander their way through the critical monkey escape
route. The pole can sustain three bomb hits, at which point it tumbles to
pieces and the monkeys find themselves stranded.
A further note on control of the pole segments — the player controls only the
top half of the pole directly, its vertical and horizontal movements
corresponding to the player’s mouse movements. The lower half responds to the
ups and downs correspondingly but shunts aside to the right when the upper
half moves left and vice versa in mirror image, allowing the player to create
a clear avenue of sorts to move around the bombs as they float by. The poles
only match up in the centre of the screen, at which point a backlog of
clinging monkeys slide down vigorously.
Periodically bonuses also come down the thoroughfare, with bananas and stars
endowing points and powers including temporary invincibility.
Monkeyslide