Play For Your Life is an isometric

Isometric projection

Isometric projection is a method for visually representing three-dimensional objects in two dimensions in technical and engineering drawings...

 3D

3D computer graphics

3D computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images...

 sports simulation game produced by Ocean

Ocean Software

The British company Ocean Software was one of the biggest European video game developers/publishers of the 1980s and 90s...

 for the Sinclair Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

 and published by Your Sinclair

Your Sinclair

Your Sinclair or YS as it was commonly abbreviated, was a British computer magazine for the Sinclair range of computers, mainly the ZX Spectrum.-History:...

as a cover tape game in .

Overview

The game is a simulation of a futuristic tennis-like sport played by robots with bats in an enclosed room.

Gameplay

The player controls a robot with a bat attempting to hit a ball at a circular target on the opposing wall. Alternatively the player may try to kill his opponent by hitting him with the ball or bat. The computer-controlled opposing player is trying to do the same.

As the game progresses more balls are brought into play, up to a limit of four. A round is won when one player scores three goals or kills his opponent.

There are 26 levels of varying difficulty. Later levels feature movable barriers and various other obstacles to complicate play.