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- THE CAFFEINE-FREE DIET SHOOT'EM UP
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- THE PLOT:
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- When the human race took to the stars, it wasn't long before they
- made first contact with an extra-terrestial species. Further
- communication proved them to be an intelligent, cultured,
- peace-loving race, with an advanced civilization. Of course, this
- sort of obnoxiousness really got up the collective nose of
- the fairly dense, uncultured, uncivilized, war-mongering Humans
- and so it was decided that the only sensible move was to
- declare war on the aliens and wipe them out.
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- The war raged for years, with neither side gaining advantage.
- Finally, in an unprecedented show of international unity, the Humans
- decided to launch an all-or-nothing strike against the alien home
- planet. Two options were available to them: Firstly, an all-out
- offensive by the combined earth attack fleet. This was judged as having
- a very good chance of success, but would cost a horrendous amount of
- money. The second option was to send a single lightly armed experimental
- prototype fighter in to attack. This would be practically a suicide
- mission with very little chance of success and would probably lead to
- the destruction of the entire Human species, but it would save a few
- bucks.
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- The choice was obvious. Only one problem remained: where to find a pilot
- stupid enough to volunteer for such an obviously suicidal mission.
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- This is where you come in.
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- THE INSTRUCTIONS:
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- Fly along, shoot bad dudes, collect bonuses. Easy.
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- Either joystick or keyboard controls may be used - The choice is made
- by the way you start the game from the title screen. If you press
- the Fire button to start, joystick control is used. If the space
- bar was pressed, then the keyboard is deemed the input device of
- choice. The keyboard controls are:
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- A - up
- Z - down
- O - left
- P - right
- SPACE - fire
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- You can figure out the joystick controls for yourself (<- insert your
- favourite smiley here!).
- Pressing ESC on the title screen will exit the game.
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- Hitting bad dudes will deplete your shield energy (displayed as a white bar).
- Zero shield = zero life expectancy.
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- The bad dudes come at you in attack waves. If you manage to destroy the
- entire wave, a bonus icon will be dropped. There are five bonuses to
- collect, each one having a different effect and duration. The bonuses are:
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- Hot Shots - Increase the damage your shots inflict
- Speed up - Increases your speed/acceleration
- AntiGrav - Stops gravity dragging you down
- Shield Recharge - Restores some of your lost shield energy
- Smiley Bonus - Increases your score
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- THE CREDITS:
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- Ben Campbell (Programming, Graphics)
- JS Hong (Graphics)
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- This game was written entirely in Blitz Basic II, from Acid Software.
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- I, (Ben) can be contacted:
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- a) via Internet at my EMail address:
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- Ben@l42south.equinox.gen.nz
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- b) more conventionally:
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- Ben Campbell
- 8 Montana Ave
- Christchurch 4
- New Zealand
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- Comments, critisisms etc are welcome.
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