The future isn't a fun time for everyone, especially you. Against your will, you have been chosen to participate in a game show called Fatal Rewind. There's only one object to this game: SURVIVE! Your situation is not hopeless, though. You are armored with a suit that enables you to fire a weapon at the swarms of enemies that cross your path. Along the way, you'll have to pick up keys and keep moving up so that the Deadly to Organic Life Liquid (DOLL) doesn't rot your skin away. You can also get weapon power-ups, life power-ups, and "oracles," which give you advice. If you don't make it on your first life, you'll get another chance as the computer replays your last futile effort ("rewind" it) until you choose to jump in and change your fate.
~ Christopher Michael Baker, All Game Guide