It was developed by Emerald Software and published by Grandslam Entertainments for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and ZX Spectrum.

[1][2][3] Set in Los Angeles in 2019, the player takes control of former policeman Ben Richards, who was framed for the murder of innocent civilians.

He is chosen by host Damon Killian to compete for his survival on the television game show known as The Running Man.

The sequence is set before Richards starts The Running Man as he tells Killian "I'll be back", suggesting he will succeed in surviving the game.

[1] For the ZX Spectrum version, each character has a minimum of 20 frames, and some use up to 30; to overcome memory constraints, special encoding methods were used.

[3] Gordon Hamlett of Your Amiga considered it a "substandard" beat 'em up,[7] while Zzap!64 wrote that the game consisted of repetitive beat-'em up action with few moves to choose from.

[6] Higham felt that the graphics and gameplay speed needed improvement; although praising intro sequence with sampled music and digitised images, he concluded that those features are not enough to recommend this game.

The magazine wrote that the ZX Spectrum version had slightly improved control but negatively noted that it was still the same basic game.