Lunar Rescue

A variant of Lunar Rescue where your task is to rescue several astronauts stranded on the moon's surface. This is done by ejecting your LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) from the mothership, navigating an asteroid field, and landing on one of the designated areas on the moon's surface. If done properly, one of the astronauts will then enter the LEM, and you must then take off, get through the asteroid field again (you can shoot the asteroids to make it easy), and dock with the mothership in order for the rescue to be successful. Only one astronaut can be on board, so return trips will be necessary. If you miss a designated area, hit an asteroid, or fail to dock with the mothership, you lose one of your three LEMs. The game ends when you run out of these.

What sets Rabbit's version from other variants of the time are the number of variations:

• Two players can join in on the action, with both players alternating between turns.
• With the player's consent, the asteroids can turn into ships that fire at you while you are making your way back.
• Several docking methods are available, including one in which the mothership will line up with the LEM's location rather than going back and forth across the screen.
• The speed of the asteroids can be set, but this can be changed during the game.
• The mothership can automatically eject the LEM, or it can be ejected by pressing [A] on the keyboard.
• Up to ten sets of terrain can be chosen, or they can be randomly selected. If the player chooses to have random terrain, it changes after all the astronauts are rescued.