Two levels that repeat forever. Each time you beat a level you 'go down a floor', or play another round. They're the same thing. Move with the arrow keys, shoot with space. Avoid the dashes, they'll kill you. The only external code I used was the Timer code provided by PoV and the cursor moving code, provided by the internetz. I used an ASCII art generator for the Game Over text, it's the first result on Google.
Well, it's a game, but it's not really my thing. You don't see the shots very well, and you don't see very well which shots are going which way. Pressing fire and then move, and the pressing fire a lot was a pain.
My eyes naturally assumed I'd be on the left side of the screen as in most scrolling action games. Took me a while to figure out I was the @ on the right.
I thought I was somebody on the left too, luckily I read the comment here. :P My eyes started to hurt after a while, but it's a good, original idea that was pretty nice to play.
Ascii shmup is neat, but it makes it hard to see the shots. Also, it seems like I can take multiple hits, but I have no idea what my status is and whether I can take more hits at any given point. A little confusing, but a nifty concept.
It needs a bit of polish in between. Right now you're pretty clueless about what happens.