____ ____ \ / / | ___ _ ___ ____ _ ____ ____ __ / / | / / | / / / | / / | / / / / | \_ / / /-- /__| / / / | / /__| / / / /__/ \ /_____/ /___ / | /___ / / |/ / | / /___/ / \ / _____________________________________________________________/ ARCADE WITH ACTION! STRATEGY ELEMENTS A group of fantical saboteurs have infiltrated the Gravitational Research Institute and planted numerous time bombs throughout the 5 laboratories. They have also reprogrammed my robot guards to act against me. As head of security I must now call in my elite force of Deactivator Droids to clear the bombs and repair the computer. They will have difficulty moving from room to room as floors may be ceilings and ceilings may be walls. Also the rooms have different gravities. The Deactivators are my last hope to save the Institute from destruction. Lets' hope they haven't been drinking! REAKTÖR PLAYING THE GAME ---------------- The object of the game is to remove all the bombs from 5 different buildings. You start on level one in a four by four building. The displays at the top of the screen provide a view of what is going on in two adjacent rooms. At the bottom of the screen is a map of the building showing you the positions of droids and bombs. Each droid is restricted in the number of rooms it can move between. Your score is shown in the box on the left, and any bonus droids you have available. The status box on the right shows whether the droid you are controlling is carrying either a bomb or a circuit board. To remove the bombs from the building you will have to carry them to the exit and throw them out. There is not always a direct route out of the building, so you will have to throw the bomb between a number of droids to remove it. The exit room is the only room with a door which leads to the outside. Certain elements in each building will not function until you replace the corresponding circuit board in the computer room. These include lights, matter transmitters and door or window openings. Some circuit boards are dummies and have no effect and others switch off obstructing forcefields. You can move around the building in a number of different ways. Through the doors, dropping through hatches, sliding up and down poles, or using the matter transporters. OPTIONS ------- Once the game has loaded you will see the opening screen. From here you will be able to select either beginner or advanced level. On beginner level you will have slower guards, more time and more impacts before the bombs explode. If you have already played the game but have failed, you will be given the opportunity to restart the last level you played with a zero score. If you manage to remove all the bombs from a building, you will be placed at the start of the next level. THE OPTIONS AVAILABLE ARE: -------------------------- F9 - Abort F0 - Start new game from building 1 F1 - Start new game from highest building reached in current session F2 - Beginner/Expert F3 - Music/Sound If using 464/664 use number keypad not F keys SELECTING AND CONTROLLING DROID ------------------------------- When a new level starts, you will be placed in droid select mode. This is shown by the flashing highlight on the map. By moving the joystick left and right, the cursor can be moved over all the available droids in the building. Pressing the fire button selects the droid. If the cursor is over two droids, then the droids shown hovering is the one available for selection. To place a bonus droid (if available), select the cursor left or right to highlight the bonus droid and press fire. A single cursor will now appear over the top left room on the building map. Use the joystick to position the cursor over the room in which you wish to place the bonus droid and press fire. The droid select cursor will appear. To move the bonus droid you have just placed, press the fire button again. When in droid movement mode, left and right on the joystick moves the droid left and right relative to the floor. Up moves the droid to the back of the room and down brings it forward. Pressing the fire button, opens up the control icon window, which acts as a gameplay pause. Any bombs being carried by your current droids will continue to fizz, but time is frozen until you return to movement control. THE CONTROL ICON WINDOW ----------------------- There are four icons present in this window. From left to right they are: Droid select - enables the selection of another droid by moving joystick left or right and pressing fire. Control is switched to this droid. Bomb throw - enables the droid being controlled to thow a bomb or circuit board. Scan rooms - allows you to view all the rooms in the building, left, right, up or down. Droid movement - returns you to movement control of the currently activated droid. BOMBS ----- All the bombs in a building are set to go off in a sequence. If you are carrying an active bomb you will see the fuse burning in the status display. Be careful when throwing bombs as they can only withstand a limited number of impacts before they will explode. When throwing a bomb through a window or hatch, try and position a droid on the other side to catch it. When the bomb passes into the new room, control will automatically be transferred to the new droid. REPLACING CIRCUIT BOARDS ------------------------ Circuit boards need to be replaced in the computer room to restore the function of certain elements in the building. There is only one computer room per building. To replace a circuit board, move the droid carrying the circuit board to the back of the computer room until the circuit board disappears from the status display and reappears in the computer. Have fun doing this in the dark on level 4! PICKING UP AND THROWING OBJECTS ------------------------------- A droid can only carry one object at a time. Trying to pick up a bomb whilst carrying anything else will cause the bomb to explode. To pick up either a bomb or a circuit board, move your droid over it. To throw, press the fire button to open up the control icon window and select the bomb throw icon by pressing fire, the display will be replaced by a trajectometer showing the angle and direction at which the throw will be made. Move the joystick left or right to select the direction required, and press the fire button to throw when the angle you want to throw at is displayed. Holding the left or right joystick position slows the movement of the trajectometer for more accurate throwing. Pulling the joystick back towards you will drop the object carried and return you to movement control mode. It also unfreezes the pause! Pushing the joystick forward will cancel the throw and return you to movement control mode. ROBOT GUARDS ------------ The robot guards will only chase after an active droid if they are in the same sector of the building. If you go out of the sector, they freeze. Guards can be destroyed only by making them fall through hatches within a short space of time. If a guard makes contact with an active droid, the droid will disintegrate. If the droid is carrying a bomb, then the bomb will explode. SCAN MODE --------- In scan mode, moving the joystick in any of the four directions will move a cursor over the building map. Releasing the joystick will display the highlighted rooms. This mode will enable you to plan your routes and keep an eye out for any guards which might be lurking in adjacent rooms. Pressing the fire button will return you to the location and control of the currently active droid. In Building 5, no scan mode is available until one of the circuit boards is replaced in the computer. ROOMS ----- Because of the nature of the research being carried out in the buildings, each room has an individual gravity generator. These have been set to one of four strengths and the rooms ½G = 1 Block have one of four 1G = 2 Blocks orientations. The 2G = 3 Blocks gravities are as follows:- 3G = 4 Blocks (in top left hand corner of room) FORCEFIELDS ----------- You cannot move or throw objects through forcefields without sustaining damage. SCORING ------- Points are scored for collecting and replacing circuit boards but more importantly for the speed with which bombs are taken to the exit. TO LOAD ------- Type RUN "AS. Copyright subsists in this program recording. Unauthorised broadcasting, diffusion, public performance, copying or re-recording, hiring, leasing, renting or selling under any exchange or repurchase scheme in any manner is prohibited. Ariolasoft UK Limited is the exclusive licensee in the United Kingdom (C) 1985 Tigress Marketing Ltd (P) 1986 Ariolasoft UK Ltd STOP! Don't jump! Bandage those wrists! Put away those pills! Turn off the gas! Turn off Wogan! It's hard but you can do it - YES, with only 32,000 on the clock you too can now be the proud owner of an Ariolasoft T-shirt or colour metal logo badge or even one of our fine games! Your friends won't know you - "Who is that attractive beast?" they cry! No need to thank us with a beer, just send your crossed cheque/PO (payable to Ariolasoft UK Ltd) and send it in, together with your completed database and the item(s) you require, clearly marked. Post it to: Ariolasoft UK Ltd · PO Box 461 · London NW1 2ND. FOR YOUR AMSTRAD Cass Disk SKYFOX [] 9.95 [] 15.95 TOADRUNNER [] 8.95 [] 14.95 KAISER [] 7.95 [] - TUJAD [] 8.95 [] 14.95 CAMELOT WARRIORS [] 8.95 [] 14.95 SEPULCRI [] 8.95 [] 14.95 DEACTIVATORS [] 8.95 [] 14.95 Ariolasoft T-Shirt [] £4.99 medium [] large [] Ariolasoft Metal Badge [] £1.00 [] (All prices include P&P and VAT. Please allow 28 days for delivery.) A R I O L A S O F T To validate this voucher please fill in all the details below in BLOCK CAPITALS |TITLE |INIT |SURNAME | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |ADDRESS | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |CITY/TOWN | |COUNTY | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |POSTCODE |TEL | | D | M | Y | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|_| (Date of birth if under 18) How did you learn about this program? Please tick as approximate __ __ __ __ DATE PROGRAM | | | | | | | | PURCHASED |__| Poster |__| Advertisement |__| Review |__| Video | D | M | Y | __ __ __ |_|_|_|_|_|_| | | | | | | |__| Friend |__| Retailer |__| Other (please specify) |RETAILER NAME | |RETAILER TOWN | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| AS 32054