THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



APPLE JAM



PUBLISHER

DK'Tronics



AUTHOR

Unknown.



YEAR

1982/3



CATEGORY

Arcade



DESCRIPTION

Eat as much as you can without popping, whilst avoiding the

killer rat!



CONTROLS

Redefinable keys.



INSTRUCTIONS

Stuck inside an Apple Jam factory, all there is left to do is

EAT!  Apples come along a conveyor belt and fall off, and you

must try and catch them in your open mouth. Also, jam drips

slowly out of a vat and you must similarly try to catch this.

Every time you eat a piece of food you get fatter! Get too fat

and you get a stomach ache, which can be remedied by using one

of your three stomach pills. Run out of pills and you die! To

stop yourself from needing pills, you may pay a trip to the sauna

on the right hand side of the screen which thins you back down

to a skinny guy!



However, whilst you are in the Sauna food is dropping into the

sewer below the factory, where it is eaten by a rat! Once the rat

grows big enough it will enter the factory and try to eat you!

The only way to kill it is to enter the lift on the left hand

side of the screen. The lift rises and falls, and you must try

to time it so that the rat is squashed underneath! There is also

a box of rat bait that, if dropped, will stunt the rats growth!

Careful, though, 'cos you only have one life!



(nb. I can't work out how the rat bait drops - it seems to be

random.  If anyone can shed any light on this, I'd be very

interested to find out!)



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CHEATS

None.



SEQUELS/PREQUELS



SCORES RECEIVED

Pre-magazine.



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GENERAL FACTS

It's fun, it's relatively quick and it's simple. It's also bloody

impossible to beat the high score!



Forget Doom, this was the first game with GORE! Squashing the rat

under the lift results in a ever-growing pool of blood! Highly

amusing the first time you see it!





NOTES

This really does have to be seen to be believed! It might look

a bit crap, but it's really fun to play (at least in the

short-term!), even if all you do is squash rats to increase the

size of the puddle of blood!















































