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- 3-D NARROW ESCAPE
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- Enter the stellar fortress of a 23rd century warlord whose evil intent
- is to dominate your home star system and enslave all its inhabitants.
- Your mission is to navigate through the narrow and fast-moving passages
- of the fortress and destroy the warlord's defense forces and his powerful
- arsenal. Beware...the passages of the fortress will encircle you in 3-D
- terror while the warlord's defense systems will become more menacing. Will
- you succumb to the evil of the warlord or destroy him and make a Narrow
- Escape?!
-
- 3-D Narrow Escape Controls
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- Joystick: Push forward to move your ship down, backward to move it up.
- Push left and right to move ship sideways.
- Button 1: Unused.
- Button 2: Unused.
- Button 3: Unused.
- Button 4: Fire.
-
- Game Play
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- Your goal in 3-D Narrow Escape is to successfully navigate your ship
- through the narrow, fast-moving passages of the warlord's fortress, destroy
- his defense forces and powerful arsenal, and avoid space debris. You'll also
- have to maneuver your ship through small holes in a series of walls where
- you'll pick up precious fuel cells that allow you to continue on your
- mission. If you pilot your ship successfully, you'll be faced with the
- warlord's own escape ship which you must hit several times to destroy it and
- liberate the star system for the warlord's tyranny.
- Each level gets more difficult as everything will move faster, your fuel
- will be consumed more quickly, the holes in the walls will get smaller, and
- you'll face more menacing defense forces.
-
- Levels
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- The game progresses through increasingly difficult levels of play. Each
- level of game play consists of two phases:
-
- Passages : During the first phase of each level, you must maneuver your
- ship through the narrow, moving passages with the joystick while
- shooting six of the warlord's defense forces with Button 4. If
- you miss any of the six, they will go off the screen and be
- re-cycled to give you another chance, but you'll use more fuel.
-
- In addition to various defense forces, which you MUST destroy,
- there are extra targets that you can try to shoot for additional
- points. Unlike the regular defense forces, the extra targets
- are non-threatening - they will not shoot at you or crash into
- you.
-
- During this phase, you must also deal with space debris, which
- will suddenly shoot up through the play field. You cannot shoot
- space debris but can only try to avoid it by dodging from side
- to side. If space debris crashes into your ship, it will
- destroy you.
-
- As you navigate your ship through the narrow passages, be
- careful not to crash into the walls or you will destroy your
- ship. You can maneuver your ship into a gap between moving
- walls, but only for a brief moment or you will crash into the
- approaching wall. This 'side-stepping' into gaps is helpful
- when trying to avoid an approaching enemy or space debris.
-
-
- Walls : If you successfully navigate the passages and destroy the
- required six defense forces, you will enter the second phase - a
- series of walls with holes. In the first level of the game,
- there will be five successive walls, each one with a hole
- through which you must maneuver your ship. In the second level
- of play, there will be six successive, in the third level, seven
- walls, etc. Also, the size of the holes will get smaller in
- each new level. The hole will be in a different location on
- each wall.
-
- After passing through the hole in each wall (but before entering
- the hole in the next wall) there will be a fuel cell which you
- must pass through in order to capture it. If you miss a fuel
- cell, you can still continue playing by entering the hole in the
- next wall. But keep an eye on your fuel gauge and try to
- capture fuel cells if your fuel is running low. (Note: In early
- levels of the game, you will not need to capture all of the fuel
- cells to get to the next level. However, as the game
- progresses, your fuel will be consumed faster, so you WILL need
- to capture all of the fuel cells in order to make it through the
- next level).
-
-
- Warlords Escape Ship
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- After successfully completing three levels of play, you will come
- face-to-face with the warlord's escape ship in open space. You must shoot
- the warlords ship FIVE times to destroy it during the first encounter, seven
- times during the second encounter, etc. But be careful...the warlords ship
- will also shoot at you and try to avoid your shots! You can also intercept
- the warlords torpedoes with your own shots. If you destroy the warlords
- escape ship, you will enter the next (fourth) level of play and the game will
- continue. You will face the warlords escape ship after successfully
- completing every three levels of game play, but each time you face it, you
- will have to hit the escape ship more frequently to destroy it.
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- Number of Ships
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- In each game, you start with four ships, three reserve ships plus your
- ship.
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- Scoring
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-
- Points are awarded as follows:
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- Destroying Each Enemy Ship
- in The Defense Force 50 x Level Number
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- Capturing Fuel Cells 100 points
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- Hitting Warlord's Escape Ship 50 points
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- Destroying Warlord's Escape Ship 500 points
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