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KAMIKAZE DUCK
Program by Buck Childress
Text by Fender Tucker
[NOTE:] A joystick plugged into Port
#2 is required for this game. Also,
once you begin the game, the only way
to exit is to press RUN/STOP RESTORE.
To get back to LOADSTAR, LOAD"HELLO
CONNECT",8 and press RETURN.
Ducks dive from fog. If they
don't hit a lily pad, they die. If
they do, they become adult ducks and
fly away. You have a boat with a net
made of lily pad stuff so you can help
them become adults by making sure that
they hit the net before the water.
If you ignore such serious
ethical considerations as licensing,
ecological damage caused by motor
boats, and payoffs to the Sierra
Club, you can have a great time at
the lake. If only your boat were
easier to control....
You have a 10-foot fiber-glass
SpeedSport Trawler with a 500 hp
Evinrude Destroyer outboard, so you
have all the power you need.
Unfortunately, all you have to
steer with is a joystick. If you
push the stick to the right, your
craft heads to the right, but in
order to move you must push the stick
forward. To go left, push the stick
to the left and then forward to move.
To move backward, pull the stick
back. To extend your lily pad net,
push the fire button and the net jumps
out of the front of your boat, or as
some people say, the bow.
If you catch the careening duck
with your net, he will quickly mature
and fly off, fodder for the hunters a
lake or two away. If you miss, the
duck will splash into the water and
become fish food. Such is the luck of
a duck.
Each night there are fifty ducks
in the fog. You can activate the
net-extender sixty times a night so
theoretically you can 'save' all
fifty ducks. The number of ducks you
save is shown at the top of the
screen, along with the number that
have kamikazed and the number of
times you have used your net-
extender. You can move onto the next
night anytime you want by pressing any
FUNCTION key. You can also pause the
action by pressing the SHIFT or
SHIFT-LOCK keys.
The only way to call off the duck
debacle is to press the RUN/STOP
RESTORE combination. If you want to
return to Lake Drake, enter SYS49152
and press RETURN. To return to
LOADSTAR, enter LOAD"HELLO CONNECT",8
and then RUN.
Don't forget the annual
Duck-Lover's Banquet at the Peking
Fowl Restaurant in Deming, New
Mexico. See you at the races!
FT
[DAVE'S AFTERSHAVE:] Buck Childress
was one of the names I recall from
dozens of programs in Ahoy, Commodore,
and other paper magazines. The editors
of these magazines had to remember the
sorely mistreated fingers of their
readership. Buck usually met the
challenge of simple programming with a
lot of panache.
So here's to Buck and all the great
pastimes of yesterday.
DMM