Ladybug (video game)

Ladybug is a video game that exists as part of Game Wand Arcade in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. It is modeled after the real-life arcade video game of the same name from 1981.

Gameplay
The player controls a ladybug that travels through a maze eating X-shaped dots while avoiding evil beetles that emerge from the center box. Skulls that appear in the maze are deadly for the ladybug to eat because they cost the player one of his five lives. However, the skulls are also deadly for evil beetles, as they cause the beetle that touches them to reappear in the center box. When all four of the evil beetles leave the center box, a special vegetable appears that awards the player bonus points and temporarily freezes all the beetles on the screen.

Round egg-shaped targets with letters and hearts on them award the player 100 points when they are blue, 300 points when they are yellow, and 800 points when they are red. Eggs with hearts when they are eaten blue cause the score multiplier for that level to increase (to double points, triple points, and 5 times normal points), while eggs with letters make the letters in the EXTRA register turn yellow (when eaten yellow) and those in the SPECIAL register turn red (when eaten red). Turning all the letters in the EXTRA register yellow awards the player an extra life, while turning all the letters in the SPECIAL register red awards the player with a special bonus screen where the player must eat as many vegetables as possible within a time limit.

When all the dots on the screen are eaten, or when the player spells EXTRA or SPECIAL in the registers, the game advances to the next level where the action gets a little faster.