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This file contains important information about O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal. Please read it carefully before installing the software. It contains the following topics: 1. Product Description - Describes the product, the hardware requirements, and what additional features you will receive after registering. 2. Definition of Shareware - Basic concepts of shareware. 3. Disclaimer Agreement - Describes the disclaimers. 4. Rules of the Game - Rules for O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal. 5. Installation Procedure - How to install this program using Windows. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ------------------- It's the game that had to happen! Start your Bronco and hit the highway as you join O.J. in his All-American Race to Acquittal. The object of the game is to get twelve jurors in your favor while dodging tabloid reporters, the L.A.P.D. and avoiding bankruptcy. You can test your knowledge of the Crime of the Century with Trivia Questions, Evidence Cards and More. It's a low-speed police chase with high-speed thrills! Hardware requirements for O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal are: 25Mhz 486SX or faster PC compatibles 4 MB of RAM 2 MB of available disk space Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later VGA or SVGA display subsystem (256 colors preferred) 16 bit Windows compatible sound card preferred Nonregistered copies of O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal are limited in the following ways: 1. You can only run the program twice after the program is installed. 2. Some of the very entertaining features are taken out. These features are Football Hall of Fame, O.J.'s Estate, and Tattler Tabloid. A description of these features can be found in the rules of the game. To register your copy of O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal, write down the INSTALLATION CODE shown on the opening screen, and send $15.95 to Banana Productions,Inc. P.O. Box 13492, Overland Park, Ks 66282-3492. We will then send you your REGISTRATION CODE. For immediate activation using credit card, call 913/362-0644. We accept MasterCard, Visa, Discover and American Express. Please have your installation code ready. Once you receive your registration code, enter it in the space provided on the opening screen. You are now ready to enjoy all the fun-filled features of O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal. The following form is provided for your convenience. INSTALLATION CODE: --------------------------- NAME: ------------------------------------- ADDRESS: ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- PHONE: ------------------------------------- BEST TIME TO CALL: --------------------------- DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE ----------------------- With shareware distribution users are given a chance to try software before buying it. If, after trying a Shareware program, you continue to use it, you are expected to register. Shareware programs may differ on details -- while some might request registration others require it. Often programs specify a maximum trial period. After registering, you might get anything from current program with a printed manual to just the right to continue using the software. The copyright laws that apply to commercial software also apply to shareware. The copyright holder retains all rights with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware programmers are accomplished professionals just like commercial programmers and their programs are of comparable quality. There are good and bad programs produced by commercial and shareware programmers. Mainly the difference between commercial and shareware software is how they are distributed. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is not a type of software. Shareware is a distribution method. Whether it's commercial or Shareware, you should select software that suits your needs and finances. You can fill your needs much easier with Shareware because you can try out software before you buy it. Shareware prices are low because overhead is low and Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee -- if you don't use the software, you don't pay for it. DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT ---------------------- Users of O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal must accept this disclaimer of warranty: "O.J.'s Race to Acquittal is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal." O.J.'s Race to Acquittal is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer users with quality software without high prices and provide incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you find this program entertaining and would like to remove the trial and feature limitations imposed, you must make a registration payment of $15.95 to Banana Productions, Inc. The $15.95 registration fee will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time. You must treat this software just like a book. For example, this software may be used by any number of people and may be freely moved from one computer location to another as long as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it's being used at another. Just as a book cannot be read by two different persons at the same time. Anyone distributing O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal for any kind of remuneration must first contact Banana Productions, Inc. at the address below for authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to distributors recognized by the ASP as adhering to its guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal immediately. Please have your friends play O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal for evaluation. If they find the program entertaining, encourage them to apply for a registered copy. All registered users will receive a registration number that removes the trial and feature limitations. RULES OF THE GAME ----------------- THERE ARE THREE WAYS OF WINNING: 1. Get acquitted. A player is acquitted if all 12 jurors are in her/his favor (thumbs up) when landing on the Lance Ito Trial tiles (these tiles are immediately before the Football Hall of Fame). 2. By choosing the correct door while at the O.J. Simpson estate. If the player opens the door leading to Mexico he/she immediately wins. 3. In a multi-player game, it is also possible to win by being the last remaining player after the other players have lost. To win in a one-player game, the player must be acquitted. THERE ARE THREE WAYS OF LOSING: 1. Get convicted. A player is convicted if all 12 jurors are against him/her (thumbs down) when landing on the Lance Ito (Trial) tiles. Once convicted, the player is out of the game. 2. Go bankrupt. A player is bankrupt when her/his bank account shows no money. Once bankrupt, the player is out of the game. 3. Police Roulette. A player loses when, following a slow-speed chase, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) stops on the tile occupied by that player. See LAPD tile (below) for more information. IN A MULTIPLAYER GAME, THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE LOSER. THERE IS NEVER MORE THAN ONE WINNER. HOW TO PLAY THE GAME To start the game, select "NEW GAME" under the "GAME" menu. Players will be prompted to select first the number of players and then their names. Players will be then identified by both a name and number. This number appears on each player's Bronco. A white Bronco is the mode of transportation for O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal. Each player begins with $20,000,000 and 12 jurors in his/her favor (thumbs up), since you're innocent until proven guilty. During the game, players will either gain or lose jurors. The maximum number of favorable jurors is 12. This maximum is never exceeded by gains during the game. A player may also never have more than twelve jurors against him/her. Players take turns rolling dice by clicking the "ROLL DICE" button. The name of the active player is red. If a player loses, his/her name is white. The rest of the players names are black. The players move their tokens clockwise, starting at the Football Hall of Fame in the lower right hand corner. For example, the player advances seven tiles if the sum of the two numbers shown on the dice is seven. Each turn will cost the player $50,000. Players earn $100,000 each time they move past the Football Hall of Fame tile. TYPES OF TILES FREE TILES No action occurs when a player lands on a free tile. The free tiles are ABC's Monday Night Football, Disneyland, Mezzaluna, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Shop, The Dick Van Dyke Show, McDonalds, and Town and Country Limousine Service. MOVE TILES A player who lands on a move tile will move forward or backward a specified number of tiles. These tiles (and the movements they cause) include: the Paul Revere Middle School (forward 4 tiles), Sunglasses (forward 4 tiles), the Smiley-Face (forward 19 spaces to the Football Hall of Fame), Media Blitz (backwards 4 tiles), and the Go Juice Go tile (forward 5 tiles). The player will be instructed to click the Bronco which will then automatically be moved. MONEY TILES The player wins or loses money on these tiles. These spaces are marked with a dollar sign. The Hollywood tile is another tile which affects the player's bank account. TELEVISION MAGAZINE TILES The player loses the support of jurors when he/she land on Hard Copy, Current Affair, Geraldo, or Maury Povich. EVIDENCE TILES The player draws a card from the evidence deck and wins or loses the favor of jurors, depending on whether the evidence favors the defense or prosecution. CHARACTER TILES The player draws a card from the character deck and wins or loses either money or jurors. TRIVIA TILES The player draws a card from the trivia deck and answers a multiple choice question. The lettered answer which is chosen is the lettered answer which is highlighted the next time a player lands on a trivia tile. If answered correctly, the player wins money; if answered incorrectly, the player loses money. CORNER TILES There are four corner tiles: Football Hall of Fame, the O. J. Simpson Estate, Tattler Tabloid, and LAPD. FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME: If the player lands on this tile, he/she can win $200,000 to $700,000, depending on how far down field O. J. advances. Each player earns $100,000 each time he/she passes this tile without landing on it. THE O.J. SIMPSON ESTATE: When a player lands here, he/she must choose one of three doors. If the door reveals a glass of orange juice, the tile is a free space. If "Kato the dog" is behind the door, the player loses $500,000 (hospital and surgical fees). The player immediately wins the game if the chosen door leads to Mexico. TATTLER TABLOID: The player landing here will gain or lose jurors, depending on the headline. LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (LAPD): When any player lands on this corner square, a slow-speed chase ensues. All players risk losing the game if the squad cars stop on their Bronco. If the police stop on an unoccupied tile, no player loses and the game continues. SAN ANDREAS FAULT (EARTH QUAKE) When any player lands on this space all players lose $1,000,000. JURY DELIBERATION TILES There are two adjacent jury deliberation tiles. If the player has all 12 jurors in her/his favor when landing on these tiles, she/he is acquitted and wins the game. If the player has all 12 jurors against her/him, she/he is convicted and is taken out of the game. GAME OPTIONS A game may be saved by selecting "SAVE GAME" under the "GAME" menu. A saved game can be loaded by selecting "LOAD GAME" under the "GAME" menu. This option is useful if the game must be interrupted with the intention of resuming play at a later time. If a player does not have 256 color capability, he/she may choose the 16 color mode from Options. A player may turn the sound off by selecting "TURN SOUND OFF" from Options To exit the game, select "EXIT" under the "GAME" menu. INSTALLATION PROCEDURE ---------------------- The following installation procedure is intended for installing from a floppy diskette. This program may be installed from the hard disk using the same procedure by changing A: to the name of the subdirectory where the installation files reside. 1. If you received this program as a ZIP file, you much uncompress the ZIP file first. (A:PKUNZIP OJ-GAME.ZIP) 2. Insert O.J.'s All-American Race to Acquittal diskette into drive A: or B:. 3. Start Windows. 4. From Program Manager, select <File> on the menu bar. 5. Select <Run> from the pull down menu. 6. Enter A:SETUP (or B:SETUP) and click OK. 7. Follow the directions provided by the installation program.