Ant Attack is an action game written for the ZX Spectrum by Sandy White and published by Quicksilva in 1983.
Almost all of the game code was written by hand on paper using assembler mnemonics, then manually assembled,[4] with the resulting hexadecimal digits typed sequentially into an external EEPROM emulator device (aka SoftROM[8] or "softie") attached to a host Spectrum.
[9] Similarly, the character graphics and other custom sprites were all hand-drawn on squared paper and manually converted to strings of hex data.
Additionally, some minor add-on routines such as high score registration were added on to the core game using regular Sinclair BASIC.
[13] The ZX Spectrum version was rated number 14 in the Your Sinclair's Official Top 100 Games of All Time.