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ZZOOM



PUBLISHER

Imagine



AUTHOR

John Gibson



YEAR

1983.



DESCRIPTION

An Operation Wolf style shoot-em-up. 



CONTROLS:

Keyboard:

Left,Right         - Alternating keys on CAPS to SPACE row

Up,Fire            - Alternating keys on Q to P row

Down,Fire Missiles - Alternating keys on A to ENTER row

Pause              - Top row (1 to 0)



Fuller, Kempston, Protek, AGF, I2L Joysticks



INSTRUCTIONS

The idea of each level is to protect refugees, from attack by

aircraft, tanks or submarines.  You must do this by moving the

cross hairs around the screen and shooting all the enemies.  You

can only use the missiles in the tank and sub attack waves.  



URL

ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/z/zzoom.zip



CHEAT

POKE 24743,0 - This gives you unlimited lives.





GENERAL FACTS

Some of the enemies (the aircraft) in this game are called Nomen

Ludi in the inlay card text, which is latin for "The Name of the

Game", which was Imagine's slogan at the time.  Matthew Smith

picked up on this, and named one of his rooms in Jet-Set Willy

"Nomen Luni", the joke being that one of the planes from Zzoom

had crashed into Willy's mansion.  You can actually make out the

plane, spread across this room and the one below it.





NOTES

Good (for the Speccy) tunes. Dambuster theme when first loaded,

and an excerpt from Queens "Another one bites the dust" on game

over.  Although very colourful, doesn't suffer too badly from

attribute clash.

