How to play Night Stalker online
- Move: arrow keys (your man keeps running until he hits a wall)
- Shoot: hold an arrow key in the direction you want to fire and press Space
- Start a new game: F12 (the console’s Reset switch)
- Difficulty: F4 toggles the left difficulty switch (B starts with one-headed robots, A with the tougher two-headed ones)
Gameplay in brief
You have five men and a limited supply of bullets. Robots are the only enemies that shoot, spiders freeze you for a moment, and blobs drain your ammunition. Now and then a gun appears that gives you more. Shooting robots in quick succession raises their colour and point value, and the top colour brings an extra man. The full rules, scoring table and tips are on the Dark Cavern page.
How it differs from Dark Cavern
The main visible difference is the screen layout. In Night Stalker the score, reserve men and bullet counters sit above the playfield, while in the American Dark Cavern they are shown inside it. As a PAL cartridge it was also made for 50 Hz European televisions. Despite the name, it is not the Intellivision Night Stalker: that original, designed by Steve Montero, has bats and a safe bunker, which the 2600 version does not.
