[2] The format is similar to that of Pac-Man: the player moves around a fixed rectilinear lattice, attempting to visit each location on the board while avoiding the enemies.

Amidar was the first in the grid capture sub-genre of maze games and was highly cloned in arcades and for home systems.

When the player clears all four corners of the board, he is briefly empowered to kill the enemies by touching them (just as when Pac-Man uses a "power pill").

The game controls consist of a joystick and a single button labeled "Jump", which can be used up to three times, resetting after a level is cleared or the player loses a life.

Each level has one special enemy (the "Tracer", colored white) which, at the start of each stage, simply patrols around the perimeter of the gameboard in an anti-clockwise direction.

Later levels increase the difficulty by adding more complex game grids, having more enemies, and reducing the delay before the Tracer begins pursuit, until eventually it gives chase after a single lap at the start of each stage.

Rollo and the Brush Bros. is a clone of Konami's arcade game Amidar published by Windmill software in 1984 as a copy-protected, self-booting disk for the IBM PC.

According to Twin Galaxies, Scott Karasek, of Racine, Wisconsin, USA, scored a world record 3,208,870 points on the Stern ROM set on June 22, 1982.