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- * *
- * Faces Demo *
- * Spectrum HoloByte *
- * *
- * 2061 Challenger Drive *
- * Alameda, CA 94501 *
- * *
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-
-
- ABOUT THE DEMO
- Faces is the third game in the "tris" series by game designer Alexey
- Pajitnov. In Faces, the object is to assemble falling segments of a face
- into completed faces, which will then be removed from the screen. If at
- any time a column of face segments stacks up to the top of the screen,
- the game is over. More playing information can be found in the
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE section of this file.
-
- This is an interactive demo. You will be able to play difficulty level 1
- of this demo up to 1500 points, at which point the game will end. You may
- then play another game or exit. When you are finished playing the demo,
- select "Quit" from the Main Menu.
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- The Faces demo requires an IBM PC or compatible with at least 512K of
- memory (384K for CGA). It will run in VGA, EGA, CGA, Tandy 1000 or
- Hercules graphic modes.
-
- INSTALLING TO A HARD DRIVE
- This procedure is described below:
-
- 1. Insert Sampler Disk 2 into floppy drive A.
- 2. From the DOS prompt, type A: and then press Enter.
- 3. Type CD\ and then press Enter to be sure that you are in the root
- directory.
- 4. Type INSTALL and then press Enter to start the installation
- program. Once it has loaded, simply follow the directions
- onscreen to install your demo.
-
- LOADING FROM A HARD DRIVE
- The following instructions assume you have already installed the Faces
- demo to your hard drive:
-
- 1. From the DOS prompt, type C: and then press Enter.
- 2. Type CD\FACES and then press Enter.
- 3. To start the demo, type FACES and then press Enter.
-
- LOADING FROM A FLOPPY DRIVE
- Before playing, be sure you have made a backup copy of your original disk.
-
- 1. Insert Sampler Disk 2 into floppy drive A.
- 2. From the DOS prompt, type A: and then press Enter.
- 3. To start the demo, type FACES and then press Enter.
-
- INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
- The demo version of Faces is an interactive demo. This means that
- you will be able to play the game; however, it will end when you reach
- 1500 points. Following are the instructions you need in order to play
- the game:
-
- About Faces...
-
- The object of Faces is to assemble chin, mouth, nose, eyes and forehead
- segments of a face into a complete face that will then be removed from
- the playing screen. When a perfect face is completed (one that uses all
- five segments of the same personality), all "blocked" segments of the
- column the face was on will be removed down to the next "open" segment.
- If a mixed face (a complete face with segments of different
- personalities) is completed, the "blocked" segment directly below the
- completed face will be removed. When a face is completed, it will be
- transferred to the left hand side of the screen. The game is over if a
- column of blocked pieces reaches the top of the playing screen.
-
- In this demo version of Faces, you will be unable to access the
- following things on the Main Menu: Level, Advanced Mode, Controls,
- Players, Load Graphics and Unload Graphics. These features have been
- disabled for the demo version of the game because only level 1 has
- been included with the demo.
-
- How to play:
-
- To complete a face, you must assemble the face segments in order: chin,
- lips, nose, eyes and then top. If you place any segment out of order
- (for example, placing a chin segment on a nose segment), that piece
- will become "blocked."
-
- To complete a perfect face, you need to assemble all five face pieces
- of only one personality. (You gain more points for completing a perfect
- face than by completing a face with mixed segments.) You can distinguish
- the different personalities from each other because each has its own
- separate background color or pattern.
-
- Each face segment has two sides. Both sides will be of the same type
- (chin, nose, etc.) but may be of a different personality. "Flipping"
- the segment(s) will reveal the other side(s). You can also transpose the
- position of the two segments. This is known as "swapping."
-
- If you have a pair of segments straddling a column of pieces, you can
- move one piece from side to side without moving the other one. In
- addition, when one of the two pieces comes to rest on a column, you
- can move and flip the second one on your own.
-
- Playing screen:
-
- The bottom of the playing screen contains four numbers:
-
- Score This is the number of points you currently have in the game. (In
- the demo version of Faces, you will only be able to get 1500
- points.)
- Level This is the difficulty level that you are playing on. (In the
- demo version of Faces, you are limited to play on Level 1.)
- PF This is the number of "perfect faces" you have completed so far.
- MF This is the number of "mixed faces" you have completed so far.
-
- The number in the upper left hand corner of the screen is the number of
- bonus points you have scored for the last completed face removed from the
- playing screen.
-
- The bar at the top of the screen indicates what face segments are
- currently falling down the screen. The word will be either "chin," "lips,"
- "nose," "eyes" or "top" and the number will be either 05, 06, 07 or 08.
- These numbers correspond to the following personalities:
-
- 05 Margaret Thatcher
- 06 Mao Tse-Tsung
- 07 Indira Gandhi
- 08 Mikhail Gorbachev
-
- Following are the keyboard commands you can use when playing Faces:
-
- J, 4 or left arrow Move the piece(s) left
- L, 6 or right arrow Move the piece(s) right
- M, Spacebar, 2 or down arrow Increase drop speed
- K or 5 Swap a pair of pieces
- I, 8 or up arrow Flip the piece(s)
- Esc Exit the game/demo
-
-
- GAME FEATURES
- The complete version of Faces contains the following features:
-
- * Full 256-color VGA graphics
- * 10 levels of difficulty including an advanced mode for the expert player
- * Ad Lib/Tandy 1000 theme music for each level
- * Head-to-head play with a live opponent via modem or direct-connection
- * Tournament mode for play with up to ten players
- * 60 different faces with an option to insert your own created faces
-
- The retail price for Faces is $39.95. Available at your local retailer, or
- for Visa/MasterCard orders only, call
-
- 1 - 8 0 0 - 6 9 5 - G A M E
- (1-800-695-4263 / 24 hours a day / 7 days a week)
- For product availability or Customer Support, call 415-522-1164
-
- Spectrum HoloByte
- 2061 Challenger Drive
- Alameda, CA 94501
-
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- Faces game and demo Copyright 1990-1991 Soviet-American Joint Venture
- ParaGraph. All rights reserved. Licensed to Breeze Investments Limited and
- Sublicensed to Bandung Investment B.V. and Sphere, Inc. Adaptation and
- modification made by Sphere, Inc. by permission of Bandung Investment B.V.
- Faces documentation Copyright 1990-1991 Sphere, Inc. Faces is a trademark
- of Soviet-American Joint Venture ParaGraph. Spectrum HoloByte is a
- trademark of Sphere, Inc. Other trademarks are owned by their respective
- holders.