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SCUBA DIVE



PUBLISHER

Durrell



AUTHOR

Mike Richardson



YEAR

1983



CATEGORY

Arcade



DESCRIPTION

Scuba diving arcade game with a HUGE collection of sea-beasts!



CONTROLS

Redfinable Keys



INSTRUCTIONS

Take control of a little guy in scuba gear as he explores the sea

from his boat, looking for hidden treasures! As you swim about

(avoiding the assorted marine-life), you will find clams on the

ocean bed. When they open their shells, swoop down and grab their

pearls! Return these pearls to the ship to earn points. Watch out

for you air level - you'll need to return to the boat when it

gets low, but the boat doesn't stay still - it moves!



To get the big points, find the octopus. Swim under him (it's

pretty hard!) and you'll find a lower down section with much

bigger clams (and fish!). Find another octopus here and swim down

again, and you'll find a chasm. Leading off this chasm are many

narrow passages. Hidden in these passages are treasure chests

which are worth bucket-loads of points!  Watch you don't crash

into the rocks too many times though, and keep an eye on that air

level! There are air tanks which you can refill your oxygen from

in these lower sections, but they're few and far between!





INLAY CARD TEXT





CHEATS

POKE 55711,x where x is the number of lives you want

POKE 45696,0 makes the clams stay open longer

POKE 55845,0 to grab yourself infinite lives



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

None.



SCORES RECEIVED





URL

ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/unsorted/s/scub

adiv.zip



GENERAL FACTS

Crashing into rocks when carrying pearls or treasure is a really

bad idea, 'cos you'll drop whatever it was you were carrying and

that's it - you can't get it back!



The sea bed is random every time you play the game! No

remembering where that treasure chest was from last time, eh? The

play area also wraps around - swim far enough to the left or

right and you'll come back to where you started. Handy for

catching the boat if you lost it ages ago - just swim in the

opposite direction!



Mike went on to write other top games for Durrell, including the

marvellous Turbo Esprit!



NOTES

A good game! Not particularly fast paced, but it has it's

panic-inducing moments! I think the point of the game is just to

score as highly as possible.















































