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DESTRUCTO



PUBLISHER

Bulldog



AUTHORS

Eugene Messina



YEAR

1987



DESCRIPTION

Shoot-em-up.



CONTROLS

Kempston/Redefinable Keyboard

Defaults:

                          Player1      Player2

Rotate Anticlockwise      CAPS         N

Rotate Clockwise          Z            M

Thrust                    D            L

Fire                      R            0



H = Hold, Q to Quit when paused



INSTRUCTIONS

All you have to do is shoot tons of aircraft out of the air.



HINTS/CHEATS

39119,0  -  Invincible

39136,0  -  Infinite Lives

41763,n  -  Player 1, n=3Dnumber of lives

34837,n  -  Player 2, n=3Dnumber of lives

42517,0  -  Infinite days (i.e. time)



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INLAY CARD TEXT

Just seven days to prevent Dr Destructo from carrying out his

dastardly plans to take over the entire planet! As you read

this very sentence the minutes are ticking away and there's

absolutely no time to lose!

Joystick or Keyboard

Program by Eugene Messina



PUBLISHED BY MASTERTRONIC

Bulldog Software "The Best of British"



THE STORY

You have just seven days to prevent Dr Destructo from

carrying out his evil plans and launching a massive global

attack. Not satisfied with his own powerful empire, he wants

complete control over the Earth and is prepated to go to any

lengths to achieve it! For months he has been plotting and

planning in his secret island stronghold, the Last Resort,

but fortunately the plans have been leaked and there may just

be enough time to prevent him from carrying out his attack -

but you have absolutely no time to waste...



GAMEPLAY

Your mission is to destroy the Empire of Dr Destructo and

ultimately his island stronghold in just seven days. The game

consists of 21 screens which will phase through from day to

night as the game progresses. The buildings and fleet of the

Destructo Empire and destroyed from the impact of shot down

air and space craft, or by the bomb which is allocated to

each player per screen. Each impact will remove a small

section of the ship, island or building. When the missing

sections amount to a gap through to the base, a leak is

created and a water spout is formed. Most objects need three

leaks in order to be successfully destroyed.



THE DESTRUCTO TASK FORCE

GREEN PLANE - Relatively slow and harmless, occasionally

changes altitude

GREEN JET - Fast but harmless, occasionally changes

altitude.

GREEN TWO SEATER - Bounces along quite harmlessly, until hit

and then it reveals its true colours as it changes into a

deadly blue air craft!

BLUE TWO SEATER - Slow but hazardous, occasionally changes

attitude

BLUE JET - Fast and dangerous. Zips along occasionally

changing altitude.

SUCKER DART - Unstoppable and fatal!

HELICOPTER - Deadly and is likely to change direction in

mid-flight. Releases a lethal sucker dart, and remains

dangerous even after it has been shot down.

SKYMINE - Enters from the top of the screen, hovers and then

leaves the same way it arrived. An extremely dangerous

obstacle that cannot be destroyed. You'll definitely hear

this one coming.

YELLOW BOMBER - Big and dangerous. Flies along changing

altitude and dropping clusters of altitude bombs that are

harmless unless detonated, and don't imagine that your

problems are over even if you manage to shoot it down.

ALTITUDE BOMBS - Harmless until exploded, but they can be

destroyed.

SHUTTLE - Enters from the top of the screen changing altitude

and direction rapidly. Launches satellites and refuses to

give up the flight even when its been shot down.

SATELLITE - Very dangerous and likely to change altitude and

direction in mid flight.

HYPERJET - A slow starter, but there's more to this one than

meets the eye.

SPACECRAFT - Harmless

SAUCER - Beware the hovering flying saucer!



SCORING

Scores are calculated seperately per screen, and the winner

of each "points challenge" is awarded an extra life.



GREEN PLANE        10       SAUCER        50

GREEN JET          10       SHUTTLE       50

GREEN TWO SEATER   10       HYPERJET      50

BLUE TWO SEATER    10       BOMBS         10

BLUE JET           20       SPACECRAFT    10

YELLOW BOMBER      30       PARANOIA      10



CONTROLS

Joystick or keyboard

Keys are redefinable

In pause mode use: H to pause     Q to quit

For one or two players

Any combination of Joystick and keyboard can be used.



LOADING INSTRUCTIONS

Type Load"" and press ENTER.





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SCORES

Your Sinclair, October 1987, 5/10

Crash, Issue 44, 38%



URL

ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/by-letter/d/

drdestru.zip



FACTS

Mastertronic got up to their name-changing tricks again with

this one. The author's title is 'The Island of Dr Destructo'.



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