8-Bit BASIC Retro-programming Projects and Classic BASIC Games
According to the Giant Bomb game website "Space Mouse" was created in 1984 as a "type-in" program in the Japanese computer magazine I/O. The following blurb from Giant Bomb regards a modern 2016 re-make of the game in celebration of its 25 Anniversary:
Space Mouse: 35th Anniversary Edition is a deliberately-retro vertical-scrolling sci-fi maze game developed and published digitally by Mindware for the PC on November 8, 2016.