Master Higgins travels through horizontally scrolling areas divided into stages, checkpoints, and areas. He runs, jumps over hazards, defeats enemies with thrown weapons, and collects fruit, milk, and other items to maintain stamina.

Each area contains several stages and ends with a boss encounter. The skateboard increases movement speed but is lost when Higgins is hit. Weapons can be upgraded by collecting the appropriate item, while bonus stages and hidden eggs provide useful items or extra lives.

Watch the stamina meter as closely as the enemies. Collect food regularly, but avoid grabbing fruit recklessly when doing so would force a jump into a hazard.

Learn the placement of rocks, fire, pits, and enemy patterns. Keep a weapon whenever possible, use the skateboard for speed through familiar sections, and treat boss fights as pattern-recognition challenges rather than races.