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<<< 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<path> 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.