Overview
Space Mouse: 35th Anniversary Edition is a deliberately-retro vertical-scrolling sci-fi maze game developed and published digitally by Mindware for the PC on November 8, 2016.
The sixth game in the studio's "Video Game Classics" series, Space Mouse is a remake of the NEC PC-8001 game of the same name, which was originally created by Takanari Suzuki as a "type-in game" for the September 1981 (Vol. 6, No. 9) issue of the Japanese microcomputer magazine I/O.
In the game, players must guide Alice up each floor of a tall building to its roof while avoiding being caught by space vermin. She is under a time limit (with a limited air supply), but can make use of power-ups to smash through walls and ceilings.
This version features numerous enhancements from the original, including smoother gameplay, additional levels, a key/door system, chiptune audio, and redrawn 8-bit pixel art. Additionally, players can play a port of the original PC-8001 version and an alternate arrangement (based on the Sharp MZ-700 series of computers).
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