Pit Fiend
From Microdeal’s budget label comes a maze exploration/survival game with
similarities to older arcade titles. As you start the game (after the title
screen which plays a rendition of The Entertainer , the screen quickly
flashes an overhead map of the five levels of a dungeon, after which you find
yourself at the middle level.
You move your character in block increments through the dungeon, with the
objective to find nine pieces of an ancient shield that are scattered
throughout the five levels. You are working against time, since a gauge on the
right side of the screen is running down, which can be interpreted as oxygen
supply, stamina or a simple time limit. When the gauge is depleted, you lose
one of your three lives. Another way to lose a life is to run into one of the
blobby monsters that wander around in the depths. Fortunately, you are not
unarmed. If you find yourself on the same horizontal level as a monster, you
may fire your boomerang, which bounces back to you after hitting a monster or
a wall. This is especially powerful in case the maze is filled with monsters,
since the boomerang may very well take down several at once if they enter the
right level at the right time. However, the boomerang can only be fired
horizontally, not vertically.
The game offers the usual Dragon colour selections: Black and white, buff or
green.
Pit Fiend