Finally, at intermittent moments the "XY zapper" is activated: four sets of lines begin to converge on a particular location on the screen.

As the player scores points, sheep (referred to as "sheepies") begin to drop from the top of the screen.

When this stage is completed, a photograph of one of Jeff's real pet sheep appears over the game field accompanied by a congratulations message and the enigmatic note: "Shysheep salutes you with stars in her nose!".

The "Special Edition" of Gridrunner++ was originally created for a gathering of members of the Llamasoft message board taking place in London.

It was later released by Jeff for download but has been removed from the Llamasoft Archive site, due to it being played without buying the standard (registered) version first.