1 | Planetoid Written by Neil Raine |
2 | Your laser - ship is patrolling the surface of the planetoid. |
3 | The scanner in the top section of the screen shows the whole planet's surface, and can be used for long-range reconnaissance. |
4 | The lower part of the screen displays the section over which the laser - ship is flying. |
5 | The raiders can be seen hovering around the surface on the look - out for life - forms, which they can drag off into space. |
6 | As a raider ascends with a life - form, you can destroy it with your lasers, or with the ‘smart bombs’ which disintegrate everything hostile within sight. |
7 | Having annihilated the raider, you can intercept the plummetting life - form and set him safely back down on the surface. |
8 | If you don't rescue a life - form before the raider carrying him reaches the top of the screen, the raider will mutate. |
9 | You will then have to contend with a mutant, while also being attacked by bombers, spores and megacytes; all of which are to be avoided at all costs and killed before going on to the next wave. |
10 | Cruisers are also dangerous, but don't have to be destroyed before you move on to the next wave. |
11 | When megacytes are destroyed, they release a cloud of spores - use the smart bombs wisely, as you only have three to begin with. |
12 | Look out when only one life - form remains, since if the raider abducting him reaches the top of the screen the planetoid explodes, and all the raiders become mutants. |
13 | However, after every five attack waves, you get a new planetoid, and a new set of life - forms to defend. |
14 | You start off with three ships, but for every 10,000 points you score, you gain a ship plus a smart bomb. |
15 | Score 500 for each life - form caught in flight and 500 for each one safely returned to the planetoid surface. |
16 | Three numbers are displayed at the top of the screen: the first shows your score and the second and third show the numbers of remaining laser ships and smart bombs respectively. |
17 | Press the SPACE BAR to continue. |