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GIANT SPACE SLUG ver 2.0
Copyright 1986,7,8,9 Dennis Drew
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THIS AND ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE:
GIANT SPACE SLUG is a "user-supported" program. Please feel free to
copy it and give copies to your friends. If you like this game, we ask
that you send us whatever donation you feel is proper. You will then be a
REGISTERED user, and we will send you a catalog of our other programs. As
a registered user, you may also call in for help and additional game hints
that aren't in the instructions. You will also help us avoid a case of
frostbite and the black plague this winter.
Our company is supported entirely by your generosity. Your donations
help us to produce additional software. Please send your donation to:
Dennis Drew PO Box 101, Joplin, MO 64802. (417)781-4248
Thank you.
THE PLOT
Hello. I am a space slug. I am an unabashed remake of the classic
game Worms. Now I know everyone already has a Worms of his own out there,
right? You keep it beside your copies of Wumpus and Star Trek. Then why
am I included here? Because the programmer is a fiend, that's why.
He wasn't satisfied with typical Worms. He added sound in convenient
places (big deal, right?). Well, he also made me somewhat faster. In fact,
I am so fast, so fast (how fast are you?) that if you play me at top level,
you don't stand a chance (of course, we recommend playing on a lower level.
The top level is there for masochists only). That's how fast. That's why
I'm here. You are about to play one of the fastest games you've ever seen
anywhere.
Oh, one little thing: You are me. That's right. You are now a
gruesome, ugly, slimy, putrescent slug roving about the universe looking
for space ships to eat. Use your four cursor (arrow) keys to guide your
direction. The screen will first of all show two shapes: the solid one is
you, the other one is the ship you are to eat. Two numbers will appear at
the bottom of the screen. The one on the left is your score. The one on
the right shows the time left remaining before the ship shifts position.
Try to eat the ship without hitting the deadly radiation belt or biting
yourself. You must not reverse your direction at any time. Instead, you
must make U-TURNS. If you try to suddenly reverse your direction you will
bite yourself and die.
Now, move your gross body out into the star field. You won't get to eat
if you don't go to work.
Note from the author: I am truly sorry about the spaceships that get
eaten by this game. However, they were warned; this area was inhabited by
space slugs. It's their own fault. Don't feel guilty; you're just
appeasing your appetite.
TO RUN THE PROGRAM: Place the program diskette in the active
drive. Enter: SLUG