I'm searching for one arcade game I've played only few times.
You walk on spiral path, and the goal of this game is to reach the top of the mountain or something maybe. It's a retro (early 80's) game, and it might look like the pic below (I made it with Son Son pic).
Kinda made me think of another C64 game, BC's Quest For Tires 2, although that's obviously not it either.
We here shall not rest until we have made a drawing-room of your shaft, and if you do not all finally go down to your doom in patent-leather shoes, then you shall not go at all.
Isn't Boggy 84? The game has levels that are exactly what your description says. It's emulated on Mame, but the 1st stage is none like that, you'll have to get at the level 2 to see it.
Yeah, I knew the game was supposed to be originally released as "Boggy 83", and the 84 one is a bootleg.
But the MSX version, which was where I met the game first, was also called Boggy 84 (Maybe because it indeed was released in 84), and I remember playing it on mame as Boggy 84... so I thought it was most famous as boggy 84 than Boggy 83