In this Australian exclusive, you're in command of the powerful helicopter, the sidewinder. Only your skill and experience as a commander can save you from certain destruction in the face of a full scale enemy attack.
Abductor is a side view single screen shooter where you control a spacecraft at the bottom of the screen, moving left or right, and you have to blast and destroy all aliens that appear in various formations above. Below your craft are six humans and you must stop them being taken by swooping aliens to the top of the screen and if they reach the top, they turn into skulls and fall down the screen. If you are hit by an alien or falling skull then you lose one of three lives but if you lose all the humans then it is game over.
The objective of the game is to steal gold bars from the vaults of Fort Knox and escape back to their hiding place with them. Fort Knox is represented as a labyrinth of hallways and for some reason there are patrolling black panthers that should be avoided.
Jelly Monsters was originally developed as a port of Pac-Man by HAL Laboratory for Commodore Japan, who held the home computer rights for Pac-Man in Japan at the time. When Commodore released it internationally the title was changed to Jelly Monsters, since Atari held the home computer rights for North America.
Commodore’s Jelly Monsters was released in 1981, a year before Atari would release Pac-Man for the 2600. Atari quickly sued Commodore to have the title removed from shelves and won.