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- 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... 13 fields, each one more difficult, await you!
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- Controls
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- Joystick: Rotates your mine destroying ship.
- Button 1: Unused.
- 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. Your ship will come into view once he disappears. Four large
- mines will suddenly become activated.
- Maneuver your ship within the galaxy in an effort to destroy the mines.
- Use your joystick to rotate your ship and button 3 to thrust forward. Button
- 2 allows 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 seed the field, but you can blast him as well.
- Once you make that part of the galaxy safe, you immediately travel to the
- next mine field. There are 13 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 star] These are "dumb" mines which simply
- drift through space.
- Fireball Mines: [Four-pointed semi-square star 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 "true" star] These mines will follow you
- anywhere in the galaxy you go.
- 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 3 sizes -- large, medium and small.
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- Field Types
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- Each of the 13 mine fields gets more difficult, but each starts with 4
- large mines. Once a large mine is destroyed, 2 medium-sized mines are
- activated. When a medium-sized mine is destroyed, 2 small mines are
- activated. The first field has 4 floating mines. Each new field starts with
- harder combinations of mines. Will you discover the types of mines in Field
- 13?
- If you can survive 13 mine fields, you will enter a new type of universe.
- Space dust and alien forces make this new world a difficult challenge!
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- Number of Ships
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- In each game you will start with 5 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 Medium Small
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- Floating 100 135 200
- Fireball 325 360 425
- Magnetic 500 535 600
- Magnetic-Fireball 750 785 850
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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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