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- 3D Minestorm
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- Tread lightly! The transport lanes of intergalactic space have been
- seeded with mines from an alien vessel. Use your mine destroying blaster to
- blow up the mines before they annihilate you! You may survive the floating
- mines, but beware of the fireball, magnetic, and treacherous fireball-
- magnetic mines... 16 fields, each one more difficult, await you!
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- Controls
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- Joystick: Rotates your mine destroying ship.
- Button 1: Escape (hyperspace).
- Button 2: Escape (hyperspace).
- Button 3: Thrust.
- Button 4: Fire.
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- Game Play
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- The enemy minelayer will move through your galaxy and will seed the first
- mine field. The mines will be left in 3 different levels or planes. Your ship
- will come into view after all the mines have been activated and the minelayer
- leaves the galaxy.
- Maneuver your ship within the galaxy in an effort to destroy the mines on the
- first level. Beware... when you hit a large mine it breaks apart into two
- smaller ones! And once you destroy the mines on the first level, those on the
- second level move up to greet you. When those are destroyed, the mines that
- were on the third level will move up.
- Use the joystick to rotate your ship and button 3 to thrust forward. Buttons
- 1 and 2 allow you to mysteriously move to a new location on the screen. Use it
- cautiously... it might put you in a more difficult predicament! As you travel
- through space, use button 4 for fire at the mines. As you destroy them,
- additional mines will become activated. Be careful... the minelayer may
- reappear to try and personally destroy you, but you can blast him as well.
- Once you make that part of the galaxy safe, on all three levels, you
- immediately travel to the next mine field. There are 16 different mine fields,
- each one becoming increasingly difficult.
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- Getting Hit
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- If you are hit by a mine you will lose one ship. The minelayer will
- reseed the field you are currently in and you will have another chance to
- clear out the field if you have any ships remaining.
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- Types of Mines
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- There are 4 kinds of mines which appear at different stages of the game.
- Floating Mines: [Three-pointed, kind of "M" shaped] These are "dumb" mines
- which simply drift through space.
- Fireball Mines: [Four-sided triangle with dot in middle] These mines hurl a
- fireball at you as soon as you hit them. You can avoid the fireball or
- destroy it with a rocket.
- Magnetic Mines: [Four-pointed "wavy" star] These mines will follow you
- anywhere you go, until you destroy them.
- Magnetic-Fireball Mines: [Kind of a "bent" Fireball Mine] These mines have
- the traits of both Magnetic and Fireball Mines.
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- Each type of mine will appear in 2 sizes -- large and small.
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- Field Types
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- Each of the 16 mine fields gets more difficult, but each starts with 12 large
- mines across 3 levels. Each large mine breaks into 2 smaller mines when shot.
- The first field has only floating mines, but each new field has a different
- combination of mines. Will you discover the types of mines in Field 16?
- If you can survive all 16 mine fields you are certainly an ace pilot, but can
- you handle what comes next?
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- Number of Ships
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- In each game you will start with 3 ships. A bonus ship is awarded if you
- clear out 4 fields.
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- Scoring
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- Points are awarded for destroying the mines, as follows:
- Types of Mine Large Small
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- Floating 100 135
- Fireball 325 360
- Magnetic 500 535
- Magnetic-Fireball 750 785
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- Additionally, 110 points are earned for hitting the fireball itself and
- 1000 points for hitting the minelayer.
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- z_morganrw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
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