Wormhole

Title: Wormhole

Platform: 8k expanded Commodore VIC-20

Video: PAL/NTSC

Interface: Joystick only

Game type: Arcade

Written by: W E de Villiers

Copyright: 2022 eXimietas Software

The story: You are an intergalactic pilot transporting passengers across thousands of light-years of space to trading stations on the edge of the known universe. You have to avoid planetoids, small moons and satellites as you navigate towards each wormhole. To get to a trading station, you need to make multiple routing wormhole jumps. Close to many wormholes are teleportation stations, which can transport passengers from nearby ships and moons to the station. So when there is a station near a wormhole you need to dock your ship, teleport and pick up the passengers before continuing on your journey.

But there is also a problem - there are hostile aliens that will also try to take over the teleportation station. You can shunt these hostiles back to their original location in under a second, but "teleshunting" may be very hazardous to a teleportee's wellbeing, to say the least. So you need to make sure that you only shunt back hostiles and not friendly ticket paying passengers.