The game is a platform and ladders affair, you, cast as Jim the cabin boy, must run about a ship exploring its twenty holds and collect various treasures. Many of these are hidden behind numbered doors and to open these you need to find the key with the corresponding number.Every screen is packed with cargo, treasures, doors and keys, most of which overlap rather badly when you walk past them. This overlapping sometimes makes it difficult to see whether or not you have picked something up. To make your job more difficult there are ghost pirates, trapdoors, the captain's parrot and some extremely large rats. Also lying in wait are booby trapped treasures which, when picked up, give you very little time to get away. The idea may not be original but the elements come together to form a fairly nice game which needs some quick thinking and a sound strategy.     
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