[4] The manual describes the situation as a "maze of city blocks" and the player a red or blue cop on patrol.

In multiplayer games, the first player to find their way out wins.

Some variants add robber blocks to the maze which either need to be avoided or captured, depending.

Maurer had been working on a clone of Space Invaders for the VCS, but because no one at Atari seemed interested in it, he looked for a new project.

[5] He later completed his version of Space Invaders,[1] which was officially licensed from Taito and became the killer app for the console.