---
title: "Gridrunner"
id: 37146
type: "product"
slug: "gridrunner"
url: "http://localhost/product/gridrunner/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/product/gridrunner.md"
published_at: "2021-07-18T17:46:12+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-22T13:24:44+00:00"
author: "David Anderson"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Devilishly fast arcade game not unlike Centipede. You control a combat ship, the Gridrunner. Above you are the Gridsearch squads, caterpillar types who run in a line across each level of the grid and quickly descend to the next. If you knock off the caterpillar units one at a time and in order, you're OK,…"
category:
  - name: "Games"
    slug: "games"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/software/games/"
post_tag:
  - name: "Knighted Computers"
    slug: "knighted-computers"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/knighted-computers/"
  - name: "Quicksilva"
    slug: "quicksilva"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/quicksilva/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
genre:
  - name: "Game"
    slug: "game"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/game/"
  - name: "Software"
    slug: "software"
    taxonomy: "genre"
    url: "http://localhost/type/software/"
author_2: "Jeff Minter"
company:
  id: 11197
  title: "Quicksilva"
  type: "company"
  url: "http://localhost/company/quicksilva/"
price: 19.95
date: 1983
rarity: "Uncommon"
companies_products:
  - id: 11024
    title: "Knighted Computers"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/knighted-computers/"
  - id: 11197
    title: "Quicksilva"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/quicksilva/"
---

Devilishly fast arcade game not unlike Centipede. You control a combat ship, the Gridrunner. Above you are the Gridsearch squads, caterpillar types who run in a line across each level of the grid and quickly descend to the next. If you knock off the caterpillar units one at a time and in order, you’re OK, but if you split them in the middle, they become little independent units of destruction and are harder to destroy. There are also the X and Y Zappers who run across the bottom of the grid. The X zappers usually harmless, but the Y zapper fires a deadly energy beam.  
Your objectives: Clear the grid of the Gridsearch Squads – or die trying.