THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

ARCADIA

PUBLISHER
Imagine

AUTHOR
"D.H.L."  - Dave Lawson, one of Imagine's company directors.

YEAR
1982.

DESCRIPTION
A classic vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, with 32 different
levels.

CONTROLS:
Left,Right      - Alternating keys on CAPS to SPACE row
Fire            - Keys on Q to P row
Thrust          - Keys on A to ENTER row

INSTRUCTIONS
Using the keys, you have to wipe out wave after wave of alien
nasties.  Each wave has a different enemy with varying movement
characteristics.  To reach the next level, you have to survive
with a single life until a counter gets from 99 to 0.  Care
should be taken when the counter does get to 0 since any aliens
on the screen will just drop straight down, irrespective of how
they normally move.  This action can kill your player, thus
meaning a restart of same level.

URL
ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/a/arcadia.zip

CHEAT
POKE 25776,0   - Unlimited Lives

NOTES
One of (if not the first?) shoot-em-ups for the Speccy.  Small
graphics, and lots of attribute clashes make this game look very
dated.























