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THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE
PIXY THE MICRODOT
PUBLISHER
Your Sinclair Type-In Game
AUTHORS
David Box
YEAR
1986
CATEGORY
Arcade
DESCRIPTION
A great arcade style game featuring realistic gravity and
inertia, one of the best type-in listings ever to feature in a
magazine!
CONTROLS
Q - Left
W - Right
SPACE - Thrust
INSTRUCTIONS
You play a single pixel. Don't let that put you off, though, this
is a seriously good (and difficult) game! You must avoid the
forces of evil and fight against gravity to collect five flashing
objects from around the maze. Collecting objects will open up
further sections of the maze which were previously unreachable.
Careful not to go too fast, 'cos there's no slow down key and the
walls are deadly!
CHEATS
It's only BASIC, I guess you could break in and alter the amount
of lives if you really wanted to.
SEQUELS/PREQUELS
One sequel - Pixy the Microdot II, a PD game.
INLAY CARD TEXT
Being a type-in game, this didn't have an inlay as such, so I've
reproduced the original text that accompanied the listing in the
magazine:
PIXY THE MICRODOT
by David Box
The world is being held hostage by aliens! (Oh no! Not again!)
The Universal Council of Literate Beings has been told that if
they don't come up with one billion mega credits in the next two
hours the Earth will be destroyed using a rather large nuclear
missile. (Oo-er!) Stupidly, the UCLB has called the aliens'
bluff and so now the sixty-five squillion megaton bomb is being
primed and will soon be launched. Meanwhile, a well known
scientist has designed a guidance jamming system and put the
blueprint in a self-propelled flying microdot, called Pixy.
But Pixy has been captured by the aliens en-route to the base
where the jammer was to be built... The future of Civilisation
(as we know it) now hangs in the balance until Pixy can escape
from the ghastly alien dungeon... (dan dan daaaaaan!!) Pixy is
a superfast, high skill arcade adventure of the highest order.
It features gravity, friction and inertia, and you have control
over LEFT - Q, RIGHT - W, and THRUST - SPACE BAR. (If you want
to go down, just let yourself drop!). The best thing of all is
that the game is all done in a mere 14k of Basic! Take it away
Pixy!
NOTES
Don't be put off by the fact that it was a type-in listing and
is almost completely written in Basic - this is a great game!
Give it a go!