This month we feature "Night Mirrors" for our Commodore 128 users.
"Night Mirrors" is a unique strategy game for two players pitted against one another across a field of mirrors. Each player is given five "lives" to start with. The object is to shoot your opponent five times, each time taking a "life."
When you fire, a neutron ball is thrust into the field of mirrors which seperates you from your opponent. The neutron ball will either return to you ending your turn, or it will make it through the field of mirrors to hit your opponent's side of the screen, taking a life from him/her.
At the beginning of a "round," which occurs when the game begins and also after a player loses a "life," the mirrors are re-arranged so that there is no direct path through the mirrors to your opponents side of the playfield. This also means that there is no direct path for your opponent to hit you either.
Each opponent takes turns. Upon their turn the players may choose to either fire their neutron ball, or to rotate ONE mirror. The object of rotating the mirrors is to attempt to create a path through the mirrors into which a neutron ball may be fired with the hope of hitting the opponent's side of the screen.
Selection is made with a joystick. The game will work with either one joystick in port 2 which both players may share, or with two joysticks in port 1 and port 2 to be used by players 1 and 2, repectively.
Before a player's turn begins, he/she may also press the HELP key which, besides presenting some helpful information, offers an option to QUIT the game.
To play "Night Mirrors" insert your UpTime disk into your disk drive with Side 2 (the side with no label) facing upwards. Then turn your Commodore 128 on. (Or press the reset button near the power switch if your 128 is already on.) The game will then auto-boot. Alternately, you could simply type (from 128-BASIC mode): RUN "NIGHT MIRRORS"
