A psychological stealth-survival experience built strictly within the architectural confines of the Nintendo Entertainment System. You have booted up a compromised prototype. Deep within the architecture of this cartridge, a malignant memory leak has taken root. You are trapped in a procedural labyrinth of absolute darkness, hunted by entities that drift through the system's dead zones.

You are completely blind. Your only method of spatial navigation is a localized sonar ping that temporarily illuminates the geometry of the maze around you. But sound is a double-edged sword: every pulse you emit instantly alerts the hunting anomalies to your exact coordinates.

Navigate the darkness, gather scattered Data Cores, and access the Black Market terminal to upgrade your system architecture.

CONTROLS

• D-PAD (Arrow Keys / WASD): Navigate the void / Select options
• A BUTTON (Spacebar/Z): Emit Sonar Ping / Confirm purchases
• B BUTTON (Shift / X): Skip vendor / Cancel
• START (Enter): Boot system / Pause simulation
• SELECT (Backspace / Esc): Return to previous menu
  
  
  
  SYSTEM UPGRADES
  Between purged sectors, spend your collected Data Cores to augment your terminal:
  • SPEED UP: Increases your base strafing velocity to outmaneuver the pack.
  • QUICK PING: Reduces the cooldown limit of your sonar hardware.
  • LONG SONAR: Expands the radial wave of your echolocation.
  • FIX CURSE: Restores 1 unit of structural integrity, clearing VRAM corruption.