The idea in „Gotcha!” is to get all money you can lay your hands on, and outwit the Collector while you’re at it. But you’d better be quick, because he’s not that interested in the money itself. He wants to catch you.

You begin the game inside a diamond pattern in the middle of the screen, with the Collector on your heels. Once out of the diamond, you’re free to move up, down, left, right, in your effort to grab the dollars and elude the Collector.
You have the advantage of moving in four directions, while the Collector only moves in a straight line across the screen. If you survive until all the money is gone, you move on to the next round, where there is more money.

If you survive 18 rounds (no one ever has), you can retire or play again.

This game was published in Compute!’s Gazette in 1984. The player had to type in the basic program from the magazine page in order to play with the game.