Jikai Shounen Mettomag/Gameplay

Controls

 * or : Press left or right on the direction pad to make the player walk in either direction. Pressing up or down has no function in this game.
 * or : Press either the A button or the B button to make the player jump. The player can only jump the height of one block.
 * : Press Start to enter the save select screen, the select a save game to continue with, and to pause the action mid-game.
 * or : Press left or right to scroll the screen and view the entire level while the game is paused.
 * : If you feel you have entered into a state where you cannot solve the stage, and would like to sacrifice one of your lives in order to start over, pause the game and press Select and down on the direction pad.
 * : Press Select to change the chosen gender of the player at the title screen. Doing so will toggle between the  blue "METTOMAG" title screen for a boy player to the red "MATTOMEG" title screen for a girl player.  Aside from the player's gender, nothing about the game changes beyond the appearance.

Players
Depending on whether you start the game from the blue title screen or the red title screen, you will play through the game as the boy shown on the left, or the girl shown on the right. They both play identically to one another. Their one and only goal is to collect all of the magnet orbs in the level, and escape through the exit located somewhere in the stage in order to reach the next stage. There are 100 stages in all. At all times, the player adopts one of the magnetic poles, either North (indicated by blue) or South (indicated by red). The polarity of the player determines how he or she will interact with the surrounding environment. Sometimes one polarity is required to get through a particular portion of the stage, as the opposite polarity will cause the player to become stuck. The exit can only be accessed once all of the magnet orbs have been collected, so the order in which they are collected is usually rather important.