Menace - Information

Menace was a simple arcade game based in a school classroom. The Teacher sat at the top of the screen, and the pupil's desks were laid out below in a 3x2 arrangement, with one pupil to each desk. Class room sizes were obviously a lot smaller in the early 1980s!

As soon as the Teacher moved away from his chair and his back was turned on the class, the pupils would start running around the desks in a frenzied clockwise motion. At the start of the game, the player sat at the middle desk on the back row.

Not only did the player have to avoid the other pupils, but they also had to collect items from the back of the classroom and deposit them. Catapults had to be placed on fellow pupil's desks (to get them intro trouble), whilst other items had to be deposited on the Teacher's chair before he returned to it.

Only one item was carried at a time. The player had to approach the very centre of the desk or chair. The item would then either be dropped or collected as appropriate.

The class swot's apple could be sabotaged with a grub, and on later levels the school cat was added ino the mix to make things even harder.