This ran at a really awful frame rate—and now that I've read the how-to-play doc, I see that's because I used a stick. That's a bit of a bummer, as it is how I have always played FGs. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But I think there's the germ of good ideas here! The idea that scissors moves forward, for example, but can just run into a rock and die. Little things like that are cute and I think can be built upon. With the sprites being as simple and clean as they are, it might help to make them a bit bigger, too? There's a -lot- of empty space in the battle area that isn't really utilized by the mechanics.

couldn't get past color screen