THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



GYROSCOPE



PUBLISHER

Melbourne House



AUTHOR(S)

Catalyst Coders: Steve Lamb & Tony Mack



YEAR

1985



CATALOGUE NUMBER

MH 237



CATEGORY

Marble Madness-a-like



DESCRIPTION

You control a gyroscope trying to keep it on the surfaces on

screen. If you navigate off a surface you fall off and lose a

life. You have to successfully navigate numerous levels in the

game in this way. It uses a slightly odd-looking 3d view. Things

get more complicated in later levels as aliens attempt to knock

you off the ledges, or kill on contact.



CONTROLS

Q = Up         Z = Down

I = Left  P = Right

O = Abort Game ( keyboard or joystick )



Either the cursor keys or those outlined above should be chosen

from the main menu which appearson the screen before the start

of the game



Gyroscope is compatible with Kempston, Sinclair Interface 2 and

Cursor joysticks. To use the joystick you should make the

appropriate selection from the main menu which appears before the

start of the game



INSTRUCTIONS



ORIGINAL INLAY CARD TEXT

The player should manoeuvre the gyroscope from the top of each

course to the bottom. There are four screens per course and five

courses to negotiate in order to successfully complete the game.

Five types of obstacles stand in the way of your progress:



     Steep slopes

     Slippery glass

     Directional magnets

     Aliens

     Narrow ledges



When you reach the end of the course you must move onto the

character square which appears like this:



     [ Drawing of a grid with a black blob on it ]



Once the game has been successfully completed, there is a real

surprise in

store!



               o0o



The player has seven "lives" or gyroscopes with which to complete

the course, with an extra life for every 1000 points. If he falls

off the edge or hits an alien, the gyroscope will fall over and

the player will lose a 'life'. At the top of the screen is a

clock which ticks down. If this reaches zero, the gyroscope will

stop spinning and fall over, with the loss of one "life".  Play

will continue with a new gyroscope which will appear on the spot

at which the previous one fell over.



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SEQUELS/PREQUELS



SCORES RECEIVED



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GENERAL FACTS



NOTES

Appeared around the same time as Bobby Bearing, Spindizzy.....and

100 other Marble Madness clones. This ( IMHO ) was not one of the

better ones.

