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PIXY THE MICRODOT



PUBLISHER

Your Sinclair Type-In Game



AUTHORS

David Box



YEAR

1986



CATEGORY

Arcade



DESCRIPTION

A great arcade style game featuring realistic gravity and

inertia, one of the best type-in listings ever to feature in a

magazine!



CONTROLS

Q - Left

W - Right

SPACE - Thrust



INSTRUCTIONS

You play a single pixel. Don't let that put you off, though, this

is a seriously good (and difficult) game! You must avoid the

forces of evil and fight against gravity to collect five flashing

objects from around the maze. Collecting objects will open up

further sections of the maze which were previously unreachable.

Careful not to go too fast, 'cos there's no slow down key and the

walls are deadly!



CHEATS

It's only BASIC, I guess you could break in and alter the amount

of lives if you really wanted to.



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

One sequel - Pixy the Microdot II, a PD game.



INLAY CARD TEXT

Being a type-in game, this didn't have an inlay as such, so I've

reproduced the original text that accompanied the listing in the

magazine:



PIXY THE MICRODOT

by David Box



The world is being held hostage by aliens! (Oh no! Not again!)

The Universal Council of Literate Beings has been told that if

they don't come up with one billion mega credits in the next two

hours the Earth will be destroyed using a rather large nuclear

missile. (Oo-er!)  Stupidly, the UCLB has called the aliens'

bluff and so now the sixty-five squillion megaton bomb is being

primed and will soon be launched.  Meanwhile, a well known

scientist has designed a guidance jamming system and put the

blueprint in a self-propelled flying microdot, called Pixy.

But Pixy has been captured by the aliens en-route to the base

where the jammer was to be built... The future of Civilisation

(as we know it) now hangs in the balance until Pixy can escape

from the ghastly alien dungeon... (dan dan daaaaaan!!)  Pixy is

a superfast, high skill arcade adventure of the highest order.

It features gravity, friction and inertia, and you have control

over LEFT - Q, RIGHT - W, and THRUST - SPACE BAR. (If you want

to go down, just let yourself drop!). The best thing of all is

that the game is all done in a mere 14k of Basic! Take it away

Pixy!





NOTES

Don't be put off by the fact that it was a type-in listing and

is almost completely written in Basic - this is a great game!

Give it a go!

