home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Datafile PD-CD 4
/
DATAFILE_PDCD4.iso
/
games2
/
rabid
/
!Rabid
/
!Help
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-03-16
|
6KB
|
140 lines
Ruldolf The Rabid Reindeer (1.1) By ARM'd & Dangerous
================================ -----------------
Coding and Graphics by Andrew Titman 5/11/95
Font and Sprite handling routines by Robert Titman
Version 1.1 13/3/96
_____________________________________________________________________________
The Plot
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Ever since that foggy Christmas Eve Ruldolf the Red Nosed Reindeer's
life had been perfect. All the other reindeer loved him and so did Santa.
But on the day before Christmas Eve there was a disaster. What started as a
relaxing stroll in Lapland became the worst dilemma Santa had ever
encountered. During that fatal walk Ruldolf came across a rabid dog, who bit
poor Ruldolf and so he contracted rabies. Santa thought it was bad enough
that his prize reindeer would be unfit for the next day's Christmas run.
But then Ruldolf turned on him and there was a much bigger problem facing
him.
So Santa ran back home and made sure he was immune to rabies. But Santa
cannot get bitten by the Rabid Reindeer more than twice or else he will catch
rabies. There is no way to get Ruldolf cured and so you'll just have to try
to start the christmas run and avoid Ruldolf who will be trying to bite you
all the way.
How to play Ruldolf The Rabid Reindeer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Controls
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
Z - Left
X - Right
' - Up
/ - Down
Winning
¨¨¨¨¨¨¨
As you progress through the game the number of children that have been
disappointed so far is displayed as well as lives and the level which you are
on. You must dodge Ruldolf and get to the top right hand corner of the
screen to complete each level. The game will get harder the higher the level.
To stop millions of little children from being disappointed, you must
use your skill and speed to complete all 20 levels of the fast and furious
game.
When your game ends you are given a score. This is worked out
mathematically using the level, number of disappointed children and how many
lives you have left (If you've completed the game). You are also given a
skill rating and told if you have today's high score.
If you have won the game and have a very high score you can have
Ruldolf humanly put down. However if your score was too low you can not
afford this and he is killed in a very painful way (Oh dear).
Changes from Version 1.0
+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=
You may not notice the changes from Version 1.0 but the new changes should
drastically change the game play for anyone with ARM250 or higher. The game
now should only have a slight speed difference between different machines
bringer the quicker machines closer to how Version 1.0 is on an ARM2.
Another difference is with the nice white christmas music that
plays during the game. On Version 1.0 the music came to an abrupt stop after
about 26 seconds. Now the music will restart and the music will keep playing
until 132 seconds have passed (and you have to be quite skilled to keep going
for that long without losing all of your lives).
I also fixed a problem with sound so that it configured sound back
to the right speed once the program had finished.
The one other difference is that in the old version it was
possible (if you spent about a minute on the first level and never advanced)
to get a negative score, now that it is fixed and so you'll just get zero.
These improvements should make the game a bit more enjoyable.
Quick Note
=+=+=+=+=+
This was my first ever game, it was a christmas gimmick game so please excuse
the repetitive game play. Game play wise, all our other games are better than
this, but please don't put me down for this, I was barely 14 when I wrote
this.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Other games from ARM'd & dangerous
==================================
+-----------------------+
| Bomba Man Version 1.5 |
+-----------------------+
A fast moving game with great graphics. Available from the Datafile, who
describe it as 'worth having'
+-------------------------+
| KrytenTXT Version 1.51 |
+-------------------------+
Kryten is a Red Dwarf text adventure game with over 155 rooms and 80 objects.
Rooms include Lister's quarters in Red Dwarf, a stasis leak, justice world
and a vat of dogs milk.
All the characters are there, including Rimmer, Lister, Petersen, Kochanski,
The Cat, Kryten's spare head, Holly etc.
+---------------------+
| Mousey Version 1.0 |
+---------------------+
Steer the mouse pointer along a fast moving road littered with dangerous
obstacles. The game goes at breakneck speeds along the rocky road at the
bottom of Death Canyon. The game requires a high level of skill to achieve
high scores.
_____________________________________________________________________________
ARM'd & dangerous is Robert Titman, Andrew Titman and David Johnston
_____________________________________________________________________________
This game is freeware you may distribute it freely as long as no files are
changed or removed.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Address
=======
Problems, bugs? Email to -
robert.t@argonet.co.uk
Or 'Snail mail' us at:-
ARM'd & dangerous
28 Eastgate
PE6 8HJ
We look forward to hearing from you soon (as long as you aren't saying the
game play in this game is crap!).
_____________________________________________________________________________
___ ___ __ __ _ _ __ _
/ _ \| _ \ \/ ( )_| | / _|___ __| |__ _ _ _ __ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___
| _ | / |\/| |/ _` | > _|_ _| / _` / _` | ' \/ _` / -_) '_/ _ \ || (_-<
|_| |_|_|_\_| |_|\__,_| \_____| \__,_\__,_|_||_\__, \___|_| \___/\_,_/__/
Producing FreeWare games for Acorn 32bit computers|___/