Beware The Spider! was a 2-4 player game released by Ideal in 1980. The object of the game was to release all of the creepy crawlies from the spiders web without alerting the spider. If you did alert the spider, it would jump up at you.
The game’s hardware is very similar to the popular game ‘Operation’. The spider’s web is actually a thin layer of conducive foil, the tongs you must use to remove the plastic creep crawlies are plastic with metal forks. The spider is made out of foam rather than plastic. This makes the spider really light and allows it to jump some distance when you disturb it during gameplay.
The plastic critters, which were actually bats and scorpions, sit just above the thin layer of metal. If you touch the metal prongs to the foil-covered spider web, a circuit is completed and the motor spins up, throwing the foam spider towards you.
GAMEPLAY
Each turn, players attempt to remove a critter from the web with a pronged device connected to the board with a wire. If the surface of the web is touched with the fork, the circuit is completed. The mechanism in the hole beneath the spider is then activated and the spider is launched. Any player disturbing the spider must replace the critter they were trying to get.
BEWARE THE SPIDER! - HOW TO WIN THE GAME
The player collecting the most critters from the web without disturbing the spider (touching the web with the pronged device) is the winner.