THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



COBRA



PUBLISHER

Ocean



AUTHORS

Jonathan Smith

Martin Galway (Music)



YEAR

Original release Jan 1987

Dec 1987, included on compilation 'Magnificent 7' (Ocean)

1989, re-released on Hit Squad label (Movie Collection #2)



DESCRIPTION

Scrolling shoot/beat-em-up



CONTROLS

Redefinable keys or Kempston/Sinclair/Cursor joysticks

General: Up=3DJump, Down=3DDuck, Left/Right=3DWalk, Fire=3DFire

B/N/M =3D Pause



INSTRUCTIONS

Licensed from the movie of the same name (starring Sylvester

Stallone), your aim is to rid the city of various nasty

criminal types using a range of weapons, whilst keeping a

lookout for your girlfriend.=20



HINTS/CHEATS

There are some 'helpful hints' in the inlay card text.



A fairly useless tip, but one which was bandied around all

the mags nonetheless, is that the game slows down if you

hold down the pause key. N, M and SPACE together seem to work

quite well.



36512,62 \

36513,5   > Infinite Lives

36514,0  /



37915,201 - Invincible





RELATED GAMES

None directly, although if you like this style of game,

the same author also coded Hysteria from Software Projects

(which came later than Cobra, and is very similar) and

Green Beret from Imagine.



INLAY CARD TEXT

THE COBRA STRIKES!

As vigilante cop, Marion Cobretti of the 'Zombie Squad', you

must rescue top fashion model Ingrid Knutsen from an army of

psychotic killers and the evil clutches of 'The Night

Slasher'.



LOADING

Type  LOAD "" (ENTER)



THE GAME

THIS IS WHERE THE LAW STOPS...AND YOU START

Advance through three playfields.

CITY SCENE (night-time), RURAL AREA (day-time) and FACTORY,

Use platforms and levels to locate and protect Ingrid from

her attackers in each stage.

Use 'HEAD-BUTT' feature to defend yourself and collect

limited weapons hidden inside BEEF BURGERS to thwart the

attack, beware - each weapon only lasts a short while!



Weapons are: INVINCIBILITY PILL

                     KNIFE

                     PISTOL

                     LASER SIGHTED MACHINE-GUN

To move to the next section you must:-

1. Collect 'all four' beef burger sections

2. Rescue Ingrid (she will follow you if you touch her).

3. Clear the section of killers



Be careful, Ingrid gets upset, if you try to kill her she

may wander away. She may also get abducted by the enemy.

Once the factory has been cleared you will have to confront

The Night Slasher himself.



CONTROLS

The program is controlled by either joystick or keyboard

which is redefinable. Most types of interface are compatible

and on screen instructions indicate the correct procedure.

You unleash th Cobra as follows using a combination of UP,

DOWN, LEFT and RIGHT.



JOYSTICK

                    JUMP

JUMP LEFT  \ | /  JUMP RIGHT

       LEFT  -   -  RIGHT

DUCK LEFT  / | \  DUCK RIGHT

                    DUCK

Press the FIRE button to use the current weapon type.



STATUS AND SCORING

On screen information show current score and lives remaining

(boxing gloves) at the bottom left of the screen.

Any weapons you may be carrying are graphically displayed at

the bottom right of the screen.

When using a weapon the 'QUACKOMETER' is displayed in the

lower central part of the screen. This realistically

indicates the time remaining before losing that weapon.

You begin your mission with 3 lives and gain bonus lives at

10,000 points and every 20,000 points thereafter.



HINTS and TIPS

* Avoid hurting Ingrid, she runs away

* Duck down to avoid flying objects

* Remember the location of each beefburger and the weapon

type it contains.

* Save 'the best' weapon till last as the action heats up

towards the end.

* Don't stay in any one place too long!



CREDITS

Musical scores by Martin Galway

Program coding and graphics design by Jonathan Smith

Produced by D.C.WARD

=A91986 Ocean Software Limited

=A9Warner Bros. Inc. All Rights Reserved.





SCORES

Crash, Issue 35, 93%

Your Sinclair, Feb 87, 8/10

(Your Sinclair, Dec 89, Hit Squad Rerelease, 74%)



URL

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

cobra.zip



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