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GULPMAN



PUBLISHER

Campbell Systems



AUTHOR

Someone Campbell?



YEAR

1982



CATEGORY

Maze/Arcade



DESCRIPTION

Eat the fruit, avoid the nasties. That's all there is to it!



CONTROLS

Cursor Keys, Joystick of some kind.



INSTRUCTIONS

Gulpman is a small man that you must guide around one of a

selection of mazes eating fruit. Once a level is clear of fruit,

you start again

only everything is a bit faster. Four nasty faces are on your

tail and

must be avoided at all costs, or they rob you of one of your

lives.

However, you do have a limited number of laser blasts which when

activated fire out in all four directions around Gulpman, sending

any

nasty face they touch back to its starting corner.



INLAY CARD TEXT

I don't have this, so if anyone can help out.....etc...

Full instructions are included as part of the game, though!



CHEATS

None that I know of.



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

None.



SCORES RECEIVED

I'm sure this was pre-games mag days!



URL

This is available in a number of places, although I seem to

remember

that some of the snapshots I originally came across were corrupt

and

didn't run properly. Take care. You can try searching for

GULPMAN.ZIP or

have a look at the snap here (which I can't guarantee....) -

ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/g/gulpman.zip



GENERAL FACTS

A Pac-Man theme, but distinctly non-Pac gameplay. Plays more like

a straight collect and avoid game than the 'chase' style of Pac

Man.



Gulpman features 16 (I think) different mazes, but unfortunately

you don't progress to a new maze when you complete the level.

This means you can only swap mazes between games.



True to the original trusting family of Speccy programmers, in

the days before there was such a term as 'Piracy', Gulpman comes

complete with a 'Save the Game to Tape' option, which creates

another identical copy of the game on a tape of your choice!



The game is written in a mixture of BASIC and Machine Code, and

plays very quickly.



NOTES

Good, clean, non-violent fun from the very birth of the Speccy

era.

