Catalyst is an original arcade game with a strange premise: You have to capture hydrogen atoms, and then capture the large carbon atom, and then hit the catalyst to destroy it and mutate to the next level, all within a time limit. If you try to do any of the captures out of order, you die.
Title: Catalyst
Author: J. Weaver Jr. (Factory Programming), game concept by Paul Howe
Publisher: Computer Shack (later Michtron)
Released: 1983
Requires: Color Computer 1,2,3, 32K RAM, cassette or disk, joystick optional.