Time Bandit is a variant of Snake in which the player controls a worm named Herbie. The object of the game is to eat all the power pills in each level. When all the pills have been eaten an exit opens and the player can advance to the next level. For every pill Herbie eats his body gets longer. In addition to the pills there are obstacles that the player has to avoid colliding with as this will cost him a life. The same will happen if Herbie collides with his own long tail. After each level there is an extra level in which Herbie is joined by a second worm named Hank. Hank wants to catch Herbie and if he succeeds, the player will not get any bonus points. The game consists of 300 levels and an edit mode that allows the player to create 100 additional levels.
