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- Cosmic Chasm
- ------------
- Can you save the galaxy by blowing up the alien-inhabited planet... and get off
- the planet before you explode? You must burrow deep inside, finding your way
- through the underground maze while battling the Planet Protectors. If you can
- get to the center, plant your one bomb and try to find your way out. It's only
- a matter of seconds before the planet goes BOOM!
-
- Controls
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- Joystick: Rotates your ship. Pulling back releases bomb in center chamber.
- Button 1: Drill.
- Button 2: Shield.
- Button 3: Thrust.
- Button 4: Fire.
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- Game Play
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- Your mission is to penetrate an alien planet, travel through its underground
- maze and place a bomb by the planet's power structure in the center cavern.
- First, you will be shown a map of the planet, including its caverns and
- passageways. The blinking light indicates the cavern where you will enter the
- planet. You must determine the quickest path to the center.
- Once in the first cavern, use your joystick to maneuver your ship and button
- 3 to thrust forward. The Planet Protectors will attempt to hit you, but you can
- destroy them first by firing dual lasers with button 4.
- To get to the next cavern, press button 1, the drill, and inch up SLOWLY to
- the force field you wish to penetrate. If you thrust too quickly while
- drilling, you will destroy yourself.
- Continue doing battle and traveling through the planet until you reach the
- center cavern. Once there, plant your bomb and find the quickest way out of the
- planet. You will then move on to the next, more difficult, mission.
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- Planet Protectors
- -----------------
- Each cavern has eight Planet Protectors. They will try and destroy you by
- colliding with you. As you approach the center chamber, they will get faster.
- They will also get faster on each new mission.
- The Planet Protectors are also aware of the danger you present. Therefore,
- they have booby-trapped the center of each cavern -- it grows larger and larger
- in an attempt to squeeze you. Don't dawdle in any cavern, you may get crushed.
- You don't have to kill all the Planet Protectors before you move to the next
- cavern. However, you will then have to battle them if you exit the planet
- through that cavern.
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- Shield
- ------
- By pressing button 2 you can surround your ship with a protective shield.
- This shield will cause the Planet Protectors to bounce off and will prevent you
- from colliding with the wall. However, you cannot drill or fire with the shield
- on.
- Unfortunately, too much energy is used by your ship in planting your bomb.
- Therefore, your shield will be ineffective from the time you plant the bomb to
- the beginning of your next mission.
-
- Center Chamber
- --------------
- The center chamber contains the planet's power structure, which you must
- attempt to destroy. When you get close enough to the power structure plant your
- bomb by pulling back on the joystick. You will then have 15 seconds to exit the
- planet safely.
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- Exiting Safely
- --------------
- To escape the planet safely, you can either travel back through the path you
- carved or any other you'd prefer. If you enter a new cavern, you will be faced
- with additional Planet Protectors. Don't forget, you must escape the planet,
- not just return to an outside cavern. Work quickly. You only have 15 seconds
- until the planet explodes.
- You can abort your mission and escape the planet at any time by leaving the
- planet through any of the outside caverns. You will be given a new mission of
- the same difficulty level as the old.
- [Not mentioned in manual---> Aborting a mission WILL cost you one ship.
- If you do this while using your last ship, the game will end.]
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- Getting Hit
- -----------
- If a Planet Protector collides with you or you hit any wall, you will lose
- one ship. If you have additional ships left, you will return to the cavern
- where you were destroyed. The same conditions the existed when you entered the
- cavern will be in effect.
- If you do not escape the planet within the 15 seconds allowed, you will
- explode along with the planet. If you have additional ships left, you will
- attempt another mission similar to the one you did not complete.
-
- Number of Ships
- ---------------
- In each game you start with 5 ships.
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- Scoring
- -------
- Points are earned as follows:
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- Action Points
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- Destroying each Planet
- Protector in Cavern One 80
-
- Destroying each
- Planet Protector
- in successive caverns 80 + 10 for each new cavern
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- Drilling to next cavern 25
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- Getting to next cavern
- while escaping planet 100
-
- Completion of
- successful mission 1000
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