THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



ROCKFALL

ROCKFALL 2



PUBLISHER

CRASH magazine powertape



AUTHOR

Ian Collier, with help from his friends for the graphics and

level design.



YEAR

1989 and 1991



DESCRIPTION

"Boulderdash" variant.



CONTROLS

The keyboard controls are redefinable



INSTRUCTIONS

You are a white character in the middle of a maze containing

various amounts of grass, rocks, walls, aliens and jewels.  Your

aim is to collect the requisite number of jewels and then find

the exit without being squashed by a rock or eaten by an alien. 

You can tunnel under rocks without being harmed, but as soon as

the rocks start to fall you had better get out of the way.  For

added interest there are also some bombs lying around.  These

blow up when they reach the bottom of their fall.



The aliens will kill you if you end up on a horizontally or

vertically adjacent square.  You can kill them by dropping things

on their heads.  The cyan butterflies are special; they turn into

diamonds when you kill them.



If you get completely buried or manage to blow up some of the

jewels, then as a last resort you may commit suicide by pressing

the "abort" key and lose one life.





CHEATS

If your best level is greater than 1 then you get the chance to

select a starting level.  On Rockfall, if you enter wIlBuR then

the program will stop and you can make changes to the BASIC

control program and its variables.  You can stop Rockfall 2 by

pressing CAPS, S, E, 4 and 6 at the same time, but this might

just make it crash depending on where you got your copy from. 

There is no BASIC control program however.



NOTES

Both games use 128K sound if available or 48K sound    

otherwise.  Rockfall also uses the Currah uSpeech, but this may

depend on whether the copy you have was created with a uSpeech

attached.  Rockfall 2 is also compatible with the Sam Coupe and

uses its sound chip.



Rockfall 2 has identical gameplay with Rockfall 1; it has a

prettier menu screen, slightly different graphics, a new "game

over" screen, and lots of new levels.



URL

ftp.nvg.unit.no in /pub/sinclair/snaps/games/arcade as

rockfall.zip and rockfall2.zip



FACTS

There are quite a lot of Boulderdash variants available on the

Spectrum, including Repton Mania and Balderdash.



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