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<h2>Overview</h2><p>Aleck Bordon Adventure: Tower &amp; Shaft Advance is an action game developed by <a href="/altron-corporation/3010-1883/" data-ref-id="3010-1883">Altron Corporation</a> and published by <a href="/aruze-corp/3010-2666/" data-ref-id="3010-2666">Aruze</a> for <a href="/game-boy-advance/3045-4/" data-ref-id="3045-4">Game Boy Advance</a>.</p><p>The game was never released outside of Japan. It is an updated port of an arcade game, called Aleck Bordon Adventure: Tower &amp; Shaft.</p><h2>Gameplay</h2><figure data-align="right" data-size="small" data-img-src="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/10/103881/2967262-aleck%20bordon%20adventure%20-%20tower%20%26%20shaft%20advance%20%28j%29_21.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2967262" data-ratio="0.66666666666667" data-width="240" data-embed-type="image" style="width: 240px"><a class="fluid-height" style="padding-bottom:66.7%" href="https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/10/103881/2967262-aleck%20bordon%20adventure%20-%20tower%20%26%20shaft%20advance%20%28j%29_21.jpg" data-ref-id="1300-2967262"><img alt="Playing tower mode" src="https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/10/103881/2967262-aleck%20bordon%20adventure%20-%20tower%20%26%20shaft%20advance%20%28j%29_21.png" srcset="https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/10/103881/2967262-aleck%20bordon%20adventure%20-%20tower%20%26%20shaft%20advance%20%28j%29_21.png 240w" sizes="(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px" data-width="240"></a><figcaption>Playing tower mode</figcaption></figure><p>In Tower &amp; Shaft there are two main play modes, tower and shaft.</p><p>In tower mode the character continuously walks left or right. Players hold a button down to charge a meter that will determine the height of the jump. When the button is released the character will jump. If the player falls to the bottom of the screen a life is lost.</p><p>In shaft mode players can freely move their character left or right while the screen is scrolling down instead of up. The goal is to navigate the shaft without falling into the pit at the bottom.</p>