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ROGUE TROOPER



PUBLISHER

Piranha ( MacMillan )



YEAR

1986



AUTHOR

Design Design



CONTROLS

Definable



INLAY CARD TEXT

Welcome to Nu Earth, the war-torn planet on the very edge of the

galaxy.  The planet is so ravaged by chemical warfare that no one

can breathe its atmosphere or swim in its seas. No one but you,

that is. You are Rogue Trooper, the fighting legend of Nu Earth,

genetically engineered to live and breathe in the poisonous

chem-clouds of the planet.



You are the sole survivor of the Quartz massacre, when the entire

regiment of Genetic infantrymen was betrayed to the Norts and

destroyed by their crack Sun Legion. Your only companions are

three of your GI buddies, their personalities stored at the

moment of their deaths as bio-chips, now mounted on your gun,

backpack and helmet.



Your driving urge is to find and expose the traitor responsible

for the slaughter of your comrades. This quest has forced you to

desert from your own side, the Southers. You must search Nu Earth

for eight vid-tapes filmed by Millicom satellite's security

cameras. This particular satellite was the field control for the

GI drop on the Quartz Zone. It was from this satellite that the

traitor's signal informed the Nortsof the GI drop. Destroyed

shortly afterwards by a Nort killer satellite, the wreckage is

scattered over the surface of Nu Earth. The vid-tapes in their

armoured cases will have survived the destruction and can provide

the only concrete evidence of the traitor's identity.



Finding the tapes would involve exhaustive searching across vast,

inhospitable terrain - something that enither side feels the need

to do. It is up to you, Rogue Trooper, to battle to survive and

to find the tapes.



Your chip buddies will advise you ( see top right of screen ) and

support you along the way - Helm will add protection to your

helmet; Gunnar will make your firing more fierce; and Bagman will

dispense the Battle computer ( top left of screen ), ammo,

grenades and all kinds of equipment as and when you need it. You

must bear in mind that despite being clones, the chip buddies do

have personalities of their own. Gunnar, for example, has

psychopathic tendencies and will want to shoot not only for

survival, but just to see a little action.



Tread carefully Rogue. Nu Earth is swarming with Norts who will

shoot you on sight and Southers who have no time for a deserter.

You must survive until you have found the tapes. Take them to the

Millicom space vehicle to prove the traitor's identity. Then, at

last, your chip buddies can be re-gened to their former GI

existence.



LOADING NOTES

Spectrum 48k:           LOAD "" <ENTER>

Spectrum 128k:          Select BASIC 48, then LOAD "" <ENTER>

Commodore 64/128:       SHIFT RUN/STOP

Amstrad CPC 464/664:    CTRL + small ENTER

Disc Machine:           | ( SHIFT + @ ) tape then CTRL + small

ENTER



Once loaded the program is menu-driven



SEQUELS/PREQUELS

None.



NOTES

Rogue Trooper appears in the comic 2000AD, published by IPC

Magazines Ltd.

