Mango Mania

• Put your thumb anywhere on the tree. A joystick appears under it. On a keyboard, the arrow keys.
• You can climb the trunk in any direction, and walk out along a branch. Step off either and you fall — open air will not hold you up, though anything you cross on the way down will catch you.
• Every branch has a mango on the end. Touch one to pick it — several in a row and each is worth more.
• Bees’ nests hang about the tree wherever they like. Touch one and the climb is over. They keep off the trunk, so going straight up is always safe; the risk is in reaching out.
• Your stamina drains the whole time and only a mango puts it back. Standing still is losing.

Two climbers. The Mango Kid can only go where the tree goes. The Web Slinger carries shooters: aim with the joystick and press WEB (or space) to fire a line — it catches on the trunk or a branch and hauls you to it. That turns a nest halfway along a branch from a mango you have to give up on into one you go over the top of.