THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE



SLIPPERY SID



PUBLISHER

SilverSoft



AUTHOR

Steven Godwin



YEAR

1982



CATEGORY

Arcade



DESCRIPTION

It's a snake game - eat things, grow longer, don't crash into

anything!



CONTROLS

A - Up, Z - Down, N - Left, M - Right

No Joystick Support



INSTRUCTIONS

Guide Sid the snake around the garden scoffing frogs. Frogs make

Sid grow longer, which makes things more dangerous as you mustn't

crash into anything - this includes your own body and the walls

of the garden!  Every time you eat a frog, a new toad enters the

garden. Toads are poisonous to Sid, so you must avoid these too.

However, every now and then a magic mushroom will grow which,

when eaten, will allow you to eat one toad without coming to any

harm! Once the garden is cleared of frogs, it's on to the next

area. Sid is provided with three lives with which to score as

much as he can.



INLAY CARD TEXT



CHEATS



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

None.



SCORES RECEIVED

This was released WAY before any of the mags started reviewing

games on a regular basis.



URL

FTP it from many places (search for SLIPPERY.ZIP), or grab it

from

ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl:/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/s/slippery.zip



GENERAL FACTS

One of the best 'snake' style games for the Speccy. Possibly

written in compiled BASIC, although I have no proof of this.



Slippery Sid is another of those rare beasts - a 16k game! :)



There are Four levels, as shown below :



     ======================== ========================

     |                |  |     |               |

     |                |  |     |               |

     |                |  |     |               |

     |                |  |                |

     |                |  |                |

     |                |  |                     |

     |                |  |     |               |

     |                |  |     |               |

     |                |  |     |               |

     ======================== ========================

          Level 1                  Level 2



     ======================== ========================

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     |                     |  |                |

     |                |  | TTTT           TTTT |

     |                |  |                     |

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |

     ======================== ========================

          Level 3                  Level 4





The 'T's on the last level are toads. Usually there are no toads

when you start the game - once you get this far there are no such

luxuries!  After level four the game continues with the same

screen arrangement as level four, but Sid starts each level

slightly longer than he was at the beginning of the previous one.

It's not very hard to complete up to about level 8, but after

that it starts to get tough!



NOTES

Playable, fun, small. What else can I say?















































