Play for Your Life
The player controls a robot with a bat attempting to hit a ball at a circular target on the opposing wall. Alternatively the player may try to kill his opponent by hitting him with the ball or bat. The…
Play for Your Life is an arcade developed by Ocean Software, released 31 December 1987 on ZX Spectrum.
What Play for Your Life is
Play for Your Life is an arcade game developed by Ocean Software and released in 1987. It was published by Your Sinclair. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The player controls a robot with a bat attempting to hit a ball at a circular target on the opposing wall. Alternatively the player may try to kill his opponent by hitting him with the ball or bat. The computer-controlled opposing player is trying to do the same. As the game progresses more balls are brought into play, up to a limit of four. A round is won when one player scores three goals or kills his opponent. There are 26 levels of varying difficulty. Later levels feature movable barriers and various other obstacles to complicate play.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Play for Your Life launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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