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- Solar Quest
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- How many types of alien vessels will you be able to destroy? Seven
- different types are after you. You must first destroy them and then attempt
- to rescue the survivors before that float into the sun. Don't get your ship
- too close to the sun... its high temperatures can destroy you.
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- Controls
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- Joystick: Rotates your alien destroying ship.
- Button 1: Hyperspace.
- Button 2: Nuke. Fires Nukes at alien vessels.
- Button 3: Thrust.
- Button 4: Fire.
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- Game Play
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- The first group of aliens will fly on to the screen. Use the joystick to
- rotate your ship and button 3 to move forward. You must try to destroy the
- ships before they collide with you. To destroy alien vessels one at a time,
- press button 4 to fire rockets. You can destroy many alien vessels at the
- same time by using button 2, the Nuke. Press this button once to fire the
- Nuke and a second time to release its force. The number of remaining Nukes
- are shown at the bottom of the screen.
- Button 1 allows you to move mysteriously on the screen to avoid begin hit.
- Use it cautiously... it might put you in an even more difficult predicament.
- Once an alien vessel is destroyed, its survivor will remain and float
- toward the sun in the center of the screen. You can earn extra points by
- either destroying the survivors or picking them up in your craft before the
- sun destroys them.
- As the game progresses, new types of aliens, who are even faster and more
- deadly, will enter the field.
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- Getting Hit
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- If an alien collides with you or you get to close to the sun, you will
- lose one ship. If you have additional ships left, you will return to the
- field with the same type of alien that destroyed you.
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- Number of Ships
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- In each game you start with 3 ships. An extra ship is awarded for each 25
- survivors rescued.
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- Scoring
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- Points are awarded for destroying the alien ships, os follows:
- Alien Points
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- Alien 1 250
- Alien 2 300
- Alien 3 350
- Alien 4 400
- Alien 5 450
- Alien 6 500
- Alien 7 750
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- After careful piloting, a ghost ship will appear. You will earn 3500
- points for destroying it. If a survivor is destroyed, 250 points are earned.
- If a survivor is picked up, 1000 points are earned. An extra Nuke is awarded
- for each 10,000 points earned.
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- z_morganrw@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
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