<<< O - B - L - I - T - E - R - A - T - O - R >>> v0.0alpha (C) 1996 Justin Smith Every single bloody right reserved Obliterate or be Obliterated! A FRIENDLY REMINDER: Coca Cola is a registered trademark of the Coca Cola Corporation. HOW AWESOME IS OBLITERATOR Here's what some people have said about this revolutionary video gaming experience: "A revolutionary video gaming experience." "My co-workers told me to try this new game called Obliterator, and well, so I did, and would you believe, after my first game my boss walked into my office and gave me a generous raise, and to top it all off, he gave me the rest of the day off." "Obliterator has been scientifically proven to fight lockjaw." -Dr B Bighoncho "I'm 84 years old and after my grandson introduced Obliterator to me and the ladies at our weekly bridge game, we've stopped playing bridge. Now, every saturday, we have our weekly Obliterator competition." "A masterpiece in computer entertainment. (99%)" -PC Game Freak Magazine. "My whole family just loves your game. Punishing Putputs, Butchering Biggles, and Slaughtering Sykobobs, it's just so much fun." "Your game is a lifesaver. Shortly after playing Obliterator for the first time, my hair grew back. After 20 years of baldness, I feel like a new man." "I just formatted the rest of my hard drive because Obliterator is the only game I'll ever need." "Obliterate! Obliterate!! Obliterate!!!!!!!" -the Daleks SYSTEM THINGS You need a minimum of a 486DX2-66 because that's what I programmed it on. It might work on something less, who knows? Sound Blaster compatible sound is supported, but only if the game auto-detects it. This shouldn't really be a problem. If the game crashes or blows up on you, e-mail me and let me know just how backwards your system is and what the problem is; I might even try to fix it. (Spiffy, a semi-colon.) Obliterator command line options: s+ sound on s- sound off m+ music on m- music off p sets path for MODs help you're looking at it All options will be saved. As far as music is concerned, the game will play a random MOD file from the current directory (or whatever the MOD path is) at the start of each game. I just added MOD support at the last minute and it turns out that with music on, the game can get rather choppy. So, therefore, ergo, if the game gets rather choppy, try turning the music off. STORY Just like every other thursday you are cruising home from origami lessons in your Superflameout/turboX1-OBLiTERATOR space cruisemobile. You turn onto 39th space-avenue and suddenly you reel. Before your very eyes, your entire neighborhood turns into a black void with a big brown meteor right where your house used to be. Off in the distance you see a strange looking green space ship making a horrendous farting noise heading towards you. Sensing something out of the ordinary, you glance at your Which-Universe-Am-I-In-Meter and to your horror it reads: Not The Right One! As the green ship gets closer you realize that it's too ugly to be from your universe and if it's not from your universe, it must be obliterated! One shot from your Lepton-Cannon blows the hideous thing to smithereens. As bits of green debris fly past your windshield, you hear a voice in your head say: "You did well young warrior, that's worth 50 points." You smile and think to yourself: If I'm gonna get home, The only sensible way would be to obliterate everything I see. HOW TO PLAY Keyboard Mouse What it does ---------- ----------- ------------- Left Arrow Mouse Left rotate left Right Arrow Mouse Right rotate right Up Arrow Left Button thrust CTRL Right Button shoot primary weapon ALT Middle Button shoot secondary weapon P pauses and ESC quits sorry, there's no strafing The little number in the top right is your sykometer, the bigger it is, the more points you get for killing things. eg. Killing a PutPut when your sykometer reads x10 will give you 50 points, at x40 you get 200 points. Simple huh? So what steps can one take to make sure ones sykometer is as high as possible and therefore gain as many points as possible? Kill. The faster you kill things the more your sykometer will rise. But your sykometer will drop if you're not killing fast enough. Kill fast. Once your sykometer reaches x100 your ship will burst into a ball of flames, not a bad ball of flames, but a good ball of flames! Your ship will repair itself to maximum and become invincible for a short time. Your weapons will be disabled, but anything you bump into will be destroyed. This is sort of like a bonus round between levels (maybe I should have worked this into the story somehow). After that, your ship will change colors and you'll be on the next level with bigger uglier aliens. After the sixth level you get back to the first level but things will generally be more difficult, there will be more aliens and it will be tougher to keep your sykometer up. The evil aliens whose world you invaded: Wait for a few seconds on the title screen and you'll get a preview of all the aliens and what their gall bladders are worth on the black market. Every now and then a truck will come haplessly passing by. They don't much like the aliens either (for political reasons) and might help you out by dropping off goodies for your ship. Primary weapons (blue) - 3-Way Triple your fun with a 3-way gun - Laser Hold the button down, no more finger cramps! - Flametoaster Cook aliens like marshmallows - Plasma What the hell is this stuff? - Forcebolt Try shooting meteors with this puppy Secondary weapons (red) - Missiles Alien seeking. Guaranteed to kill something - Magnoblast Notice how alot of the aliens like getting close to you? - Shield Prevents all damage when turned on - Zuprthruzt Makes you go extra extra fast, not always a good idea Trucks don't appreciate being blown up. HISTORY OF OBLITERATOR (1650-1789) Just so you have a better idea of how this monumentous game came into existence, the history of the creation of Obliterator: April 7 1996 - the construction begins. June 13 - PutPut routine added. Aug 20 - fixed a bug. Oct 6 - Obliterator is complete. WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS GAME? This game is shareware. What is shareware? Well, this is a perfect example of what shareware is. - You are legally entitled to play Obliterator for a period of no more than 35 seconds. After which, you have two choices, either permanently erase the game, or pay the registration fee of $129. This might seem a bit expensive for shareware, but it is cheaper than a lot of business applications. Seriously now, Obliterator is freeware. What is freeware? Well, freeware means that you are free to wear Obliterator for as long as you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. - You are free to give this game to anyone else who wants to wear it. - You are also free to upload this game to your favorite and next most favorite BBS so that other people around the non-communist world can wear this fine game. - Just don't go screwing around with it. E-mail me! my address is: justin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca - This is so anyone with any suggestions, or knows of any bugs, or wants to give a no-obligation consultation can contact the brilliant author of Obliterator. - Suggestions for new enemies and things are welcome, but don't be expectin' somethin' happenin' with 'em. - Obliterator will amazingly run under Windows, but you need the file obliteratorulzdude.dll in your directory. If you don't already have this file, it can be downloaded from almost anywhere. - This game is 100% bug free. If you find any bugs, which you will not, it's obviously due to your misuse of the game. - If you know who Biggles is, please tell me. I'd like to thank: - Themie Gouthas and everyone else who contributed to Xlib, the awesome and free mode-x graphics library that allowed me to use square pixels and screw clipping. - Eric Jorgensen and Mr. Varmint for their doubleplusgood sound library, VAT (Varmint's Audio Tools). - Whoever wrote the MODs that I included. TROUBLESHOOTING If you see trouble, shoot it.