Ok, this should have been the first game of a trilogy, which for some reason remained a monology - although, nonetheless, through its star - Ziggy - forms another trilogy with the other two titles starring the pixeled space guy [The Pyramid, Doomsday Castle].
It's a maze/arcade-adventure game with some mild shooting - in which you have to search and "store" the various strange animals populating the planet, in order to unleash them against some baddies in the following episodes of the series - which, as mentioned above, don't exist. Each animal has its own zoological features, and so you must pay attention to what you've already picked up, and what you're going to pick up, because they could kill each other or something. Also, you must nourish them with the appropriate food. How do you learn all these things? Easy, the first load is a GUIDE, which explains all about the surreal fauna you're going to encounter, and each file is accompanied by a nice, big picture of the subject. So you must find'em, keep'em alive, bring them to your spaceship [I]or something[/I], and in doing that you'll need various objects, keys, space dynamites, to explore obstructed areas - and avoiding or shooting some flying fluffy bastards infesting the planet. It's relatively original [especially for 1984] and there's a certain craft and work in it - and it's playable too. At the same time, it doesn't seem to be so terribly involving, especially action-wise.
But it can't be less than 3/5.
