The player guides Zippy, an X-shaped sprite, around a maze, viewed top-down, with solid walls, hazards and collectable rewards.

The object is for the player to survive for a period of time without making contact with either an edge of the playing area, represented as a brick walls, or hazards including water and spikes, all of which lose a life.

In a launch promotion Incentive Software offered 500 pounds to the player with the highest score by 14 January 1984.

The SAM Coupé version was released in 1991, coded by Colin Jordan and using that machine's advanced audio capabilities in the game's background music.

The game was re-released for Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC in 1992 by Alternative Software as part of the 4-Most Thrillers compilation along with Martech's Mega Apocalypse, The Fury and Vixen.