Camel Try is one of the most original and innovative Taito videogames ever produced. We aren't in control of some space craft, we won't fight any supernatural monsters, we're not wearing the clothes of a new hero, we won't do anything we've already done in the past! We have to move a coloured sphere within a barely-mazy labyrinth and take it to the goal line within a certain amount of time - or game will be over.
Camel Try can be played by one or two players alternate or simultaneously, depending on the DIP-switches settings.

The control methods is another issue which adds innovations: we won't drive the sphere in a Marble Madness style, but we'll have to rotate the background, while the sphere stands there in the center of the screen, giving us the idea of it falling in empty space - until striking some obstacles.
As soon as game starts we make the choice among four difficulty levels (odd thing to see in an arcade game). The first is named Training Course and it's made of six worlds to complete at low difficulty. In this course we get a nice introduction on control methods at the very beginning of each world.
The second level is named Beginner Course: six worlds at medium difficulty. Third is Expert Course: eight worlds at high difficulty. Finally the Special Course featuring eight worlds at insane difficulty.

While playing, we'll find a few obstacles such as yellow and red bricks having an "X" inside. By hittign them with the sphere, a few seconds (2 and 5) will be subtracted from the available time. Other blocks would be just hit and destroyed if the sphere has enough speed. In this case we will get a 1000 points bonus score. We can increase the speed of the sphere by pressing and holding the "fire" button. Sphere can even jump by hitting and releasing the button - this can be very useful when the sphere is entraped in some parts of the labyrinth or when it's about to hit a red or yellow brick.

There are a few useful bricks: the ones marked "E+" present us with 3 or 5 bonus seconds; the ones marked "E-" do the exact contrary; there are the "?" bricks, which bring random effects such as stopping time, add bonus time or 1000 extra points - or eventually just show a simple "Sorry, no bonus" message! Other obstacles are undestructible, and we'll just have to make our sphere encircle them.
We'll sometime find other spheres marked "500" around the mazes: let's hit them to get 500 extra points. Unfortunately this also has a side-effect: they make our sphere bounce away just as a flipper would do. Finally the yellow flags, which are worth 1000 points - and the bonus value increases as we get more flags immediately after.

Even making the sphere rolling is worth something: 10 points per each "step" done.
As soon as we reach the goal line we'll get a bonus equal to the amount of avaliable time, plus a few seconds will be also added to the ones available for next level. In this bonus stage we'll also find a cool slot-machine which could eventually present us with more additional seconds.

When we clear all the worlds of the current level, game ends and we get an invitation message to try the next difficulty level and showing a funny ending screen.
Except for the Training Course, we can also enter our initials in the high-scores table - and that's funny too since the selected letters will turn and scroll left and right. This time Taito programmers even added innovations to the high-score table!
Every difficulty level has its own high-score table.

The Bonze's comment
Asoften at that time, Taito innovated with this really cool game, and as far as I know, the concept as NEVER been copied (please correct me if I'm wrong)...