Meaning of Life

Meaning of Life is an arcade platform game set inside a Soviet weapons factory, where the player is tasked with assembling a new nuclear device called KRAZY. Missile components are scattered throughout the installation, and the goal is to locate each part and transport it to a specific assembly point within the complex. A constantly ticking countdown emphasizes the urgency of the mission, while the hostile industrial environment underscores the dangerous nature of working around experimental weaponry.

The player controls a character in a side-view, flip-screen factory made up of multiple interconnected areas. The game revolves around searching the factory for individual missile components and carrying them, one at a time, back to the designated assembly spot. A demonstration mode shows where this assembly point is located before play begins, giving the player a reference for where to bring the parts.

A numeric timer at the top of the screen steadily counts down, and if it reaches zero the player loses a life. Lives can also be lost by running into environmental hazards that are scattered across the factory, including dangerous platforms, landmines, and machine-gun fire. The game offers three selectable difficulty levels, providing variations in challenge while the basic objective of collecting and delivering parts remains the same.