Frank Cook:2042 Private Detective is a side-scrolling arcade game in which you play the part of Frank Cook, a low budget private detective who specializes in infiltrating dangerous cults. You travel through three missions and nine levels (including zero gravity levels in which you wear magnetic boots). The missions and levels increase in difficulty.In each mission your basic job is to travel from section to section. Usually this is as simple as getting to the door, but sometimes other tasks have to be accomplished (like flipping a switch or defeating a large enemy). Use the arrow keys or a joystick to make your character move around, jump, and climb ladders.You have a tazer with unlimited ammo that stuns the enemy, or you can pick up ammo boxes that let you shoot your deadly gun (which has limited ammo). But it will take ten shots with your gun to destroy an enemy in power armor.