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- Rip Off
- -------
- Beware of scavenging pirates trying to steal your precious fuel cells!
- The more pirates you destroy, the faster their successors become. Guard your
- tanks carefully... you are always outnumbered!
-
- Controls
- --------
- Joystick: Rotates your pirate-destroying ship.
- Button 1: Left rotation.
- Button 2: Right rotation.
- Button 3: Thrust.
- Button 4: Fire.
-
- Two controllers are required for two player games.
-
- Game Selection
- --------------
- You can select any of the 16 different game play options. Each game play
- option determines the number of available fuel cells and which characters can
- wraparound the screen (e.g. leave on the left side of the screen and return
- on the right). The game play options are as follows:
-
-
- W R A P A R O U N D
-
- Game Number of Pirate-Destroying
- Number Fuel cells Ship Pirates Lasers
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1 8 |
- 2 8 | X
- 3 8 | X
- 4 8 | X X
- 5 8 | X
- 6 8 | X X
- 7 8 | X X
- 8 8 | X X X
- 9 4 |
- 10 4 | X
- 11 4 | X
- 12 4 | X X
- 13 4 | X
- 14 4 | X X
- 15 4 | X X
- 16 4 | X X X
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Game Play
- ---------
- Your pirate-destroying ship will appear on the right side of the screen.
- In a two player game, a second pirate-destroying ship will appear on the left
- side of the screen. Your fuel cells will be in the center. You must guard
- your fuel cells from the pirates who will try to steal them. The pirates can
- appear from anywhere on the screen. Steer your ship with either the joystick
- or buttons 1 and 2, for left and right rotation. Move your ship forward by
- pressing button 3. Press button 4 to fire lasers at the pirates. The
- pirates can be destroyed by colliding with them, but you will then have to
- wait for your new pirate-destroying ship to appear before you can fire more
- lasers. The game is over when all the fuel cells are stolen.
-
- The Pirates
- -----------
- There are six types of pirates. Each new type is faster and smarter.
- They can all steal fuel tanks and fire lasers at you. In a one player game,
- two pirates of the first type will appear. If you destroy them, two pirates
- of the second type will attempt to steal fuel cells, and so on. After all
- six pirates types appear, two at a time, they will start appearing three at a
- time. In a two player game, you start with six of each type of pirate,
- appearing three at a time.
-
- Getting Hit
- -----------
- If you are hit by a pirate or collide with a pirate or the other ship (in
- two player game only), you will disappear. After a brief delay, you will
- return from the side on which you first entered.
-
- Scoring
- -------
- Points are awarded for destroying each pirate, as follows:
-
- Pirate 1 -- 10 points
- Pirate 2 -- 20 points
- Pirate 3 -- 30 points
- Pirate 4 -- 40 points
- Pirate 5 -- 50 points
- Pirate 6 -- 60 points
-
- No points are awarded for destroying the other pirate-destroying ship (two
- player game).
-
- Bonus Points
- ------------
- After destroying all six types of ships you go to the bonus levels. When
- "Bonus + 10" appears on the screen, 10 additional points are earned for each
- pirate destroyed. After destroying 6 more pirate groups "Bonus + 20" will
- appear. The bonuses will continue to increase for each six pirate groups
- destroyed.
-
-
- z_morganrw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
-