Love Letter to Time Bandit on the Atari ST (marincomics.com)

In the year, the Atari ST was introduced, on of the first games for it was Time Bandit, an arcade action game with puzzle and text adventureelements. This is a love letter to the colorful world of time gates, two players and surprising arcade worlds!

We played this on a friends machine. Loved it, but didn't understand it.