THE SPECTRUM GAME DATABASE



ERIC AND THE FLOATERS



PUBLISHER

Hudson Soft



AUTHOR

Hudson Soft



YEAR

1984



DESCRIPTION

Eric and the floaters is a single screen arcade game.



CONTROLS

The controls are given at the start of the game.  A variety of

joysticks can also be used.



Left - A/J

Right - D/L

Up - W/I

Down - X/M

Drop Bomb - Space bar



INSTRUCTIONS

You must press any key to start the game.  It will then ask you

if you want to use Keyboard or Joystick.  After that section, the

game will start.



The aim of each level of the game is to kill all of the floaters,

the orange/magenta ball-like things that roam the maze.  To do

this you have one weapon on your side - an infinite supply of

bombs.  When you drop a bomb, they are automatically primed, and

will explode after just a few seconds.



So to kill the baddies you must get close enough to them to

within the range of the bomb, drop it, and quickly run around a

corner to make sure you too are not caught in the explosion.  The

bombs will destroy any floaters that are caught in the blast, and

also certain sections of wall that are in the way, reducing the

playing area to open landscape.



More and more floaters are added each level, and the game does

get quite difficult.  You can also only drop one bomb at a time.



CHEATS



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

Eric and the Floaters is the dim and distant relative of the

console game Bomberman, which was renamed Dynablaster for it's

conversion to the Amiga.  The single player version of this is

very similar to Eric and the Floaters, but the newer version has

the advantage of allowing more than one player, making it one of

the best multi-player games around.



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SCORES RECEIVED



URL

ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/e/eric.zip



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