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PUBLISHER

Ocean



YEAR

1986



CATEGORIES

Arcade adventure licence.



CONTROLS

Keyboard, Kempston



 KEYS : Left   - CAPS SHIFT

        Right  - X

        Up     - P

        Down   - L

        Fire   - B, N, M, SPACE



INSTRUCTIONS

A race of evil reptilian aliens, the Visitors, are attempting to

take over the world (as usual). The humans are fighting back

though, and Michael Donovan, leader of the resistance, is

attempting to sabotage the alien mothership by planting bombs in

key locations inside it.

 

The Visitors have taken some security precautions to prevent

intruders like yourself from getting far. In particular, four

kinds of robots have to be dealt with:



1) Surveillance     - follows you and enables the Visitors to

                      track you

2) Maintenance      - fairly harmless; fixes things aboard the

                      ship.

 3) Cleaner         - airborne janitor robots, in effect.

 4) Security        - should be avoided like the plague; fast and

                      dangerous.



All the robots are electrified to prevent interference. Contact

with them will thus give you a nasty shock - too many shocks will

prove fatal.



Windows at the bottom of the screen show your progress. The

bottom left screen monitors commands being sent by the Visitors

to the robots and allows you to keep track of them. The middle

display shows your score and the time remaining; your laser power

level and health are shown as diminishing bars below this. On the

right is a multi-purpose console, divided into two sections with

2 vertical rows of 3 buttons each. The left-hand part controls

various game functions; clockwise from the top, these are:



 1) Pause or quit game.

 2) Ship information.

 3) Lay explosives.

 4) Log off (return to game).

 5) Display security code.

 6) Information on anti-Visitor red dust formula.



The right-hand section are the number keys; since the Visitors

are only six-fingered, they count in base 6 rather than our base

10. Every  so often you'll encounter a security door that can

only be opened by inserting a specific code. However, you can

move from level to level by using teleport pads; to use these,

stand on one and press up to  teleport up or down to go

downwards.





SCORES RECEIVED

"A neat arcade adventure". 70% (CRASH #29, June 1986)



GENERAL FACTS

This game is, of course, licenced from the American TV series.





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