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THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE
EQUINOX
PUBLISHER
Mikro-Gen
AUTHOR
Raffaelle Cecco
YEAR
1986
CATEGORY
Arcade Adventure Platform
DESCRIPTION
A platform adventure.
CONTROLS
Keyboard, Kempston
KEYS : Left - O
Right - P
Thrust - Q
Fire - M
Use - A
Pause - 3
INSTRUCTIONS
A mining asteroid, Suri Ani VII, becomes contaminated with highly
radioactive waste after an accident with its disposal. The miners
have fled for their lives, leaving behind their equipment and
much valuable ore. This has obviously cost the owners of the
asteroid a lot of money and hoping to cut their losses, they've
sent in a Dedicated Disposal Droid to get rid of the waste and
decontaminate the mines. You're the person with the job of
remotely piloting the droid...
Nothing is ever as simple as it might seem, and such is the
case in EQUINOX too - the fleeing miners forgot to shut down the
asteroid's security systems, as a result of which the place is
now difficut and dangerous to penetrate. Security Droids
materialise next to any intruder detected and attempt to destroy
them. Since only three lives are provided, you'll need to make
good use of the DDD's onboard laser system to destroy the
Security Droids. Unfortunately they tend not to stay destroyed
and rematerialise shortly afterwards.
The radioactive canisters at the root of the problem must be
collected and disposed of by dropping them down a disposal chute
into the lead-lined storage room below. There are eight levels
on Suri Ani VII, and each one must be cleared of the canisters
contaminating it. A time limit is imposed on each level due to
the creeping meltdown of some of the canisters - take too long
and they'll explode.
The DDD has a retro-thrust unit fitted which can be activated in
an emergency to make an escape from materialising Security
Droids. This demands a large amount of fuel, and if the DDD runs
out of fuel it will explode. Batteries can be collected to
replenish the fuel supply, though. Quicker movement between
certain locations is possible via teleporters, for which you'll
need to pay a toll of one droid life. This is exchanged for a
cyan teleport credit which can be obtained from the credit
dispensers. The trans-level transporter ensures safe passage
between levels, but numbered level passes have to be collected
before inter-level transport is permitted. Access will only be
granted if the DDD has a pass with a number less than or equal
to the number of the level you want to travel to.
At the top of the screen are a number of status windows. The
leftmost one shows the inventory; the next one shows lives
remaining; the centre one shows the score and the time remaining
(the coloured squares); and the right-hand one shows two bars
indicating respectively fuel and laser energy supplies.
SCORES RECEIVED
Crash: "A very well produced shoot-em-up adventure". RATING : 87%
(CRASH #30, July 1986)
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