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- Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- -----------------------------
- Welcome, Captain Kirk, to your command on the Starship Enterprise. Your mission
- is to seek out and destroy the enemy Klingon Mothership. Travel through nine
- sectors of space, each more difficult, or take a shortcut through the Black
- Hole. Be careful... the Klingons and Romulans are hiding in space, waiting to
- destroy you at every turn!
-
- Controls
- --------
- Joystick: Moves your ship through space from the pilot's view.
- Button 1: No function.
- Button 2: Power Link- Locks your ship on your Space Station door (to refuel)
- or in the Black Hole.
- Button 3: Shield.
- Button 4: Fire- at Klingons, Romulans, and their torpedoes.
-
- Black Hole Sector Selection
- ---------------------------
- You can select which of the first eight sectors contains the Black Hole,
- which is the shortcut to the enemy Klingon Mothership. When Game 1 appears on
- the screen, press button 2 to change the sector in which you want the Black Hole
- to appear. For example, if you press button 2 twice, Game 3 will appear on
- the screen. This will put the Black Hole in Sector 3. If you do not choose a
- particular sector, the Black Hole will be in Sector 1.
-
- Starting Game Play
- ------------------
- Once you select the number of players and the sector of the Black Hole, press
- button 4 to enter the first sector of space and start game play.
- If you do not press button 4 once the number of players and the sector of the
- sector of the Black Hole are selected, the game will be in a self-play mode.
- Pressing any button when you are in this mode will return you to the beginning
- of the game.
- Descriptions: [My descriptions, the manual has little drawings..]
- -------------
- Klingons: Have a triangle in the center of their ships.
- Romulans: The other ships. Flat, bat-like ships..
- Klingon Torpedoes: Six-pointed star (asterisk).
- Romulan Torpedoes: Four-pointed star.
- Black Hole: Several concentric squares.
- Your Space Station: Bowl-like with rotating "door."
- Enemy Klingon Mothership: Large bad-ass ship. You'll know it when you find
- it. :)
-
- Game Play
- ---------
- As Captain Kirk, you view the action from behind the windshield of the
- Starship Enterprise. [Don't accuse me of that one, the manual says windshield]
- Use the joystick to maneuver your ship through space and aim your gunsight at
- the appropriate target. Use button 4 to fire lasers at your enemies and the
- torpedoes they hurl at you. If you can't hit the torpedo, press button 3 to
- place a protective shield in front of your ship. Your shield will cause the
- torpedoes to bounce off. If you destroy all the ships in a sector, you will
- automatically move to the next sector. Each new sector has more enemies who
- move even faster. If your clear out the first eight sectors, you will enter
- Sector 9... and face the dreaded Klingon Mothership.
-
- Getting Hit
- -----------
- If you are hit by a torpedo, your windshield [Exactly how much wind IS in
- space, anyway :)] will crack. If you have additional ships left, you will be
- given another chance to clear out the sector you are in.
-
- The Black Hole
- --------------
- Rather than fighting through all eight sectors in order to get to Sector 9,
- you can take a shortcut through the Black Hole. To enter the Black Hole, aim
- your gunsight and press button 2, the Power Link. You will automatically be
- transported to Sector 9. There is only one Black Hole in each game.
-
- Klingon Mothership
- ------------------
- Sector 9 contains the deadly Klingon Mothership, which furiously shoots
- torpedoes of all types at you. The Mothership must be hit directly on the nose
- in order to be destroyed. Additionally, the Mothership can only be destroyed
- when its nose is lit up.
- Beware... very few get out alive! If you do manage to survive (somehow) you
- will be automatically transported back to Sector 1 and the game will continue.
-
- Laser Power and Shield Strength
- -------------------------------
- Laser power and shield strength are limited. The gauges are at the bottom of
- the screen -- the line on the left is your remaining laser power and the line on
- the right is your remaining shield strength. Each of your ships will start with
- full laser power and shield strength. Keep an eye on your gauges. When the
- lines start to look low, you will need to refuel at your Space Station. Watch
- carefully each time you complete all nine sectors in a galaxy. Every new galaxy
- uses up lasers and shield at quicker rates.
-
- Refuelling
- ----------
- Time your refuelling carefully because you only have 1 Space Station in each
- sector. To refuel, you must hook up with door of your Space Station by lining
- up your gunsight with the door and then pressing button 2, the Power Link. If
- you make contact, the Space Station will freeze as your tanks fill up.
- [Not in manual- Normally, you are invincible while doing this (actually, the
- enemy ships will not fire at you while you are docked). However, if an enemy
- torpedo has already been shot at you when you dock, it WILL hit you. Watch out
- for this...]
-
- Number of Ships
- ---------------
- At the beginning of each game, you will have 3 ships. A bonus ship is
- awarded each time destroy the Mothership.
-
- Scoring
- -------
- Points are earned for destroying enemy ships, torpedoes, and the Mothership,
- as follows:
-
- Object Points
- ------------------------------------
- Torpedo 300
-
- Romulans and 300 - 800 The farther the enemy is from you, the
- Klingons in more points you get.
- normal flight.
-
- Romulans and 1000
- Klingons
- banking near
- you ship.
-
- Mothership 5000
-
- Additionally, you are awarded a bonus of 1500 points for destroying all ships
- in a sector. No points are earned or lost for destroying your own Space
- Station.
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-