Tape Worm is a video game in the action genre developed by Spectravision and published by Spectravision originally released in 1982. It is currently playable on Atari 2600.
You are a tapeworm. You have to move through the bean field and eat beans. Each time you eat a bean, your body length increases and the number of beans decreases by one.
The beans appear randomly in the field, and if you don't eat them before the beetle in the background moves from left to right, your count will be zero. If you go right before the beetle takes the bean, two beans will appear in the patch and two will be added to the count.
Occasionally, the Beaky bird or the Spanky spider will pass through the bean patch. In later levels, an obstacle will appear in the middle of the patch.
If you put your head (yellow square) on the obstacle or on the side of the patch, or if your head is on your body, or if Spanky or Beaky put their head on you (or eat it), you will lose a life.
The third patch is at night. When you get a bean, you can see the patch for two seconds. If you want to see more, press the fire button to make it brighter for another two seconds, but it costs one bean.
The levels and their point values are
Apple (5 points per bean, 50 points per apple)
Orange (10 points per bean, 100 points)
Grape (15 points per bean, 150 points)
Strawberry (20 points per bean, 200 points)
Banana (25 points per seed, 250 points)
For every 1,000 points, you will receive a bonus worm. You can have a maximum of four worms in reserve.
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