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*************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** YES THE NEW COMERS ARE BACK WITH THE DOCS FOR THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE AND FRIENDS PINBALL AGA (C) ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE 1995 RELEASED 18:00 UK TIME 10TH NOVEMBER 1995. *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** ____________________________ \ __ __ _ / \ \ / ____ _ \________ ____ ____/ ________ ____ ________ ________ \_ Y¬\ \_ _ ¬\\_ ¡ \_ ¡ \_ _ ¬\\_ ¡\_ _ ¬\\_ _ ¬\ / ! \ / Y___/ / |___ / |___ / Y___/ / | / Y __/ / Y___/ // _ \// __/__// | ¬\// | ¬\// _/ // |// _ ¬\// __/__ /· Y /· Y /· ! /· ! /· ¡ /· /· Y /· Y ¬\ \_ _!___\_ _____\_ _____\_ _____\_ _! \_ _\_ _!___\_ ______/ \/ \/ \ \/ · / \/ \/ \/ \/ \/·$· \ / / \ . / / \ \/ / 'HELLFIRE - ...and it burns,burns,burns!' \ / \/ THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE AND FRIENDS PINBALL AGA. ----------------------------------------------- THE MAIN MENU. ============== Use this to access any of the four pinball tables available. You can also access the Hi-Score tabke from here by pressing F6 - to return to the main menu, press F6 again. If no key presses detected within a short time, the main menu will swap back and forth with the hi-score table automatically until a key is pressed. To load a pinball table, you can use the F keys as follows. F1 Thomas F2 James F3 Percy F4 Toby F5 Options screen F6 High Scores F7 HELP Once you have selected the table, the screen will clear and you will be shown the table layout, all the tables features will be explained to you at this stage (just watch). You can decide whether or not to play this table by pressing F1 - F8 for the number of players, or ESCAPE to go back to the main menu (press ESCAPE again and you will return to DOS). CONTROLS AND PLAYING THE GAME. ============================== When you have loaded a Pinball table, it will wait in an "attract mode". This is where the table is scrolling up and down the screen waiting for you to begin playing. The table will always go into this mode if it is loaded but you are not playing it. To start playing, you need to define how many players are going to play. Up to 8 players can play the game at any one time. After pressing P for pause, hit any key to continue playing. To select the numnner of players you use the Function keys as follows: F1 - 1 Player, F2 - 2 Players, F3 - 3 Players, etc. After you've selected the number of players, the table will scroll up the screen ready for play and a ball will be loaded into the chute. Use the keys to play THOMAS THE TNK ENGINE AND FRIENDS PINBALL. Key(s) Action. Cursor down Pull back the spring (release key to shoot ball) Left shift Flip the left Flipper Right Shift Flip the right Flipper SPACE bar Tilt The table Each Player has 3 balls or more per game. If you are playing with more than 1 player, gameplay procedes as follows: Player 1 goes first and plays his first ball. When he loses it, gameplay reverts to player 2 who plays his first ball, and so on. When the last player has lost his first ball, the gameplay reverts back to player 1 who then plays his second ball. The gameplay follows this pattern until all players have played all their 3 balls. Apart from the standard controls, the game has some special features. 1) Tilting the table (Key - Space bar) Sometimes it can be useful to "push" or "shove" the table to move the ball when it is not near the flippers. To do this in the game press the space bar. Remember not to use this feature too many times as you will end up "tilting" the table, the flippers will lock, and you will lose your ball! 2) Cycling light sets (Key - Left and Right Shifts) Imagine the situation where you have lit three lights of a four light set. You are trying to light the remaining light but misjudge your aim and the ball heads for an already lit light. All is not lost! Each time you press the left or right Shift keys you will "cycle" all the lights in the set in a clockwise direction so that each light moves one position to the left, which means that if you are quick enough you can move the unlit light to the psition where the ball is heading, light it, complete the full light set and gain a bonus score! Only a few select light sets on each table are controllable in this fashion. Referto each tables guidelines to familiarise yourself with their cycleable light sets. 3) Pausing the game (Key - P) If you need to halt the game but do not want to quit it, a simple tap on the P key will do the trick. To restart the game, press any key. 4) Restarting the game (Key - ESCAPE) If you are having a bad game and want to start again, do the following: Press ESCAPE. The table will go into attract mode. To start another game use the function keys as before. 5) Quitting the game (KEYs - P, ESCAPE, Y and N) If you are playing a table but wish to play one of the others, follow this sequence: Pause the game with P. Now Press ESC. You will be asked whether you really want to quit or not, if you do, press Y. If you change your mind press N. If you press Y the table will fade out and the main menu will be loaded and displayed. Use the Function keys as before to load a new table. If you press N the game will go back to being paused. Press any key to return to the gameplay. 6) "Loaded the Wrong table ?" (Keys - ESC, Y and N) If you find that you have loaded the wrong table by mistake, Press ESC. You will be asked if you really want to quit or not. Press Y or N. Pressing Y loads the main menu. Pressing N puts the table back into attract mode where you can use the function keys as before to start playing it if you change your mind. Here is a summary of the controls. Key(s) Action. Cursor down Pull back the spring (release key to shoot ball) Left shift Flip the left Flipper Right Shift Flip the right Flipper SPACE bar Tilt The table P Pause the game (Press any key to restart) ESC Quit a Table (If in-game, and after pausing) Quit a game (When the ball is in the chute) HIGHSCORE ========= When you have played a game and have scored a high score you will be asked to enter your name for the high score table. There is a high score table for each Pinball table. You are allowed to enter three letters for your "name". To do this use the left and right SHIFT keys to cycle through the alphanumeric characters and the SPCAE bar to set or fix a character. The table will automatically go into attract mode after you have entered your name. High Scores are saved each time a Pinball table is Quit and the main menu is reloaded. Please note that this is the only time high scores are saved. General Information. ==================== The JACKPOT is a Collective Score Bonus which is built up by all players during a game. It is reset to zero each time it is awarded to a player. FLASHING LIGHTS AND BONUSES. ============================= Flashing Lights are a hint as to where you can pick up big scores and bonuses. Most Bonuses are not immediately added to your score. When you loses a ball, they are added up and your score is updated. Whilst this is happening you will see "x2 x3 " etc appearing at the bottom of the screen; indicating bonuses you have obtained. We will be using the following terms when describing each Pinball tables' features. ROLL-OVERS ---------- These are small switches which poke through the surface of the pinball table. They are shown as vertical metal-coloured lines and usually have a light above or below them. You enable their lights and pick up points or bonuses whenever the ball rolls over them. DROP-TARGET OR TOUCH TARGETS ---------------------------- These are simple switches which poke through the surface of a pinball table. They are shown as vertical metal-coloured lines and usually have a light above or below them. You enable their lights and pick up points or bonuses whenever the ball rolls over them. PASSAGES AND LANES ------------------ These are channels that the ball can roll through to get from one place to another. BALLTRAPS --------- These are short dead-end passages. When the ball enters a ball trap it will be held there for a short time while you collect a bonus score. Ball-traps can be covered (where you cannot see the ball) as well as being in the open. LETTERS ------- These are actually lights in the shape of letters. They make up words on a Pinball table, and once you have lit up the whole word you collect a score bonus. RAMPS AND LOOPS --------------- These are like raised passages. They carry a ball form one position in a table to another. They are usually shown with solid grey enterences ramps change into wire-frame guides around halfway along the ramp, although they maybe shown in different colours. You can also shoot the ball under ramps. TUNNELS ------- A tunnel is a passage that goes underneath a ramp or another raised section of a pinball table. MUSHROOMS --------- These are circular bumpers which award points each time the ball touches them. Once the ball is hit a mushroom it will be repelled away at high speed so beware! KICKERS ------- These are triangular bumpers which are usually found just above the flippers. They will award points each time the ball hits them. Like mushrooms, Kickers have a habit of deflecting the ball away at high speeds. MULTI-BONUSES ------------- A multi-bonus is a special feature which when collected multiplies your base score. You collect multi-bonuses ox x2, x3, x4 etc. ********************************************************************* * DESCRIPTION OF FEATURES FOR THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE PINBALL TABLES * ********************************************************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THOMAS Table Features Description. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roll-Over Gates ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these will light x2, x3, x4, x6 and x8 bonus multipliers sequentially. The lit lamp can be shuffled using the flipper keys. STEAM light ^^^^^^^^^^^ Each time this set of lights is lit, shooting the ball up the left passage will move Thomas onto the next station, scoring a bonus. COAL lights ^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting COAL lights the 5000 and 100000 score lamps. these scores can be collected by shooting the ball up the left passage. Left Passage ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Each time the ball is shot up here the lit score is collected and is increased from 50, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000 to 2500. Green lights ^^^^^^^^^^^^ The set of green lights at the top of the table score 10 points each. The Carriage Passage ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Each time the ball passes through here it lights one of the yellow carriage lamps. when all three lamps are lit then a bonus lamp is lit in the following order. Hold Bonus, Double bonus, Score Bonus and Extra Ball. For each time a ball passes through the carriage bonus increases by one. The carriage bonus is totalled up and added to your score after you lose a ball. The Ball Trap ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If a ball is shot into the ball trap the lit score is collected 10, 25, 50 and 100 respectively. The player will also collect any lit bonuses such as Score Bonus and Extra Ball. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PERCY Table Features Description --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roll-Over gate ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these will light x2, x3, x4, x6 and x8 bonus multipliers sequentially. The lit lamp can be shuffled using the flipper keys. The Tunnel ^^^^^^^^^^ Each time the ball is shot through the tunnel the SPIN feature is enabled, and can be collected by shooting the top ball trap. Shooting the bottom ball trap after going through the tunnel increases the steam cloud ramp bonus. Top Ball Trap ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ If a ball is shot in here Double Bonus, Hold Bonus and/or Score Bonus will be collected if lit. If a SPIN is enabled then the wheel will spin and stop and award the player a mystery bonus of 1000 to 5000 or an extra ball. Bottom Ball Trap ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ The flashing bonus will be collected each time a ball is shot into here. If the ball trap was hit after going through the ttunnel then the steam cloud bonus increases. TAR Waggon Lights ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting these increases the bottom ball trap flashing bonus. Water Lights ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting these increase the Platform ramp bonus. Steam Cloud Bonus ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is Collected each time the ball is shot around the top ramp. Platform Bonus ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is collected each time the ball is shot around the bottom ramp. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JAMES Table Features Description. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roll-Over gate ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these will light x2, x3, x4, x6 and x8 bonus multipliers sequentially. The lit lamp can be shuffled using the flipper keys. The Tunnel ^^^^^^^^^^ Each time a ball is shot through the tunnel, the lit scores are collected. The Ball Trap ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shooting the ball trap collects the Score Bonus. Double bonus, Hold Bonus, Extra Ball and Jackpot features when lit. Touch Targets ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these will light the next lamp in the sequence 1000, 1500, 2000 arrows pointing to the big loop on the left side of the table. Other Loops and Ramps ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shooting the ball around the ramps and loops with arrows pointing to them will light the next arrow in each set. Lighting a set of arrows will enable a Score Bonus in the tunnel, and often a feature in the ball trap as well. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOBY Table Features Description --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roll-Over gate ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these will light x2, x3, x4, x6 and x8 bonus multipliers sequentially. The lit lamp can be shuffled using the flipper keys. The Tunnels ^^^^^^^^^^^ If the ball is shot around the first tunnel and then the second tunnel within five seconds, 1000 points is awarded. The Ball Traps ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Shooting these collect the lit scores/features Blue Touch Targets ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these advances the top right hand ball trap score arrows. Green Touch Targets ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Lighting all of these advances the bottom ball trap score arrows TRACK Targets ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hot all of these to light a TOBY letter. Light TOBY'S nme to enable the jackpot. Ramp LOOPS ^^^^^^^^^^ Shooting the same ramp twice within 8 seconds scores 1000, and lights a LOOPS letter. Light all the LOOP lamps to score 10000. =========================================================================== =========================================================================== THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE'S PIBALL TABLE SCORING =========================================================================== =========================================================================== ON ALL TABLES. ************** BUMPERS = 1 KICKERS = 2 BONUS MULTIPLIER AWARDS = 50 OUTER BALL RETURN LANE = 10 INNER BALL RETURN LANES = 15 EXTRA BALL AWARD = 300 ROLL OVER GATES = 10 THOMAS ****** SPELL THOMAS TARGETS = 10 DIAGONAL GREEN LIGHT TARGETS = 10 COAL TARGETS = 10 STEAM TARGETS = 20 CARRIAGE PASSAGE = 10 ADDING THOMAS LETTER AWARD = 100 PERCY ***** SHOOTING THE SAME RAMP WITHIN 8 SECONDS = 1000 WATER TARGETS = 20 TAR WAGON TARGETS = 20 BALL TRAPS = 50 SHOOTING THE TUNNEL = 100 JAMES ***** TOUCH TARGETS = 20 BALL TRAP = 50 SHOOTING TUNNEL = 75 UPPER LOOP = 20 LOWER LOOP = 50 SHORT RIGHT RAMP = 40 LONG RIGHT RAMP = 40 TOBY **** SHOOTING OPPOSITE RAMPS WITHIN 10 SECONDS = 1000 SHOOTING TUNNEL = 100 COMPLETING TUNNEL LOOP = 1000 ALL TOUCH TARGETS = 10 BALL TRAPS = 50 Typed by TRiXy HF UK! *************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************