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DESTRUCTO

PUBLISHER
Bulldog

AUTHORS
Eugene Messina

YEAR
1987

DESCRIPTION
Shoot-em-up.

CONTROLS
Kempston/Redefinable Keyboard
Defaults:
                          Player1      Player2
Rotate Anticlockwise      CAPS         N
Rotate Clockwise          Z            M
Thrust                    D            L
Fire                      R            0

H = Hold, Q to Quit when paused

INSTRUCTIONS
All you have to do is shoot tons of aircraft out of the air.

HINTS/CHEATS
39119,0  -  Invincible
39136,0  -  Infinite Lives
41763,n  -  Player 1, n=3Dnumber of lives
34837,n  -  Player 2, n=3Dnumber of lives
42517,0  -  Infinite days (i.e. time)

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INLAY CARD TEXT
Just seven days to prevent Dr Destructo from carrying out his
dastardly plans to take over the entire planet! As you read
this very sentence the minutes are ticking away and there's
absolutely no time to lose!
Joystick or Keyboard
Program by Eugene Messina

PUBLISHED BY MASTERTRONIC
Bulldog Software "The Best of British"

THE STORY
You have just seven days to prevent Dr Destructo from
carrying out his evil plans and launching a massive global
attack. Not satisfied with his own powerful empire, he wants
complete control over the Earth and is prepated to go to any
lengths to achieve it! For months he has been plotting and
planning in his secret island stronghold, the Last Resort,
but fortunately the plans have been leaked and there may just
be enough time to prevent him from carrying out his attack -
but you have absolutely no time to waste...

GAMEPLAY
Your mission is to destroy the Empire of Dr Destructo and
ultimately his island stronghold in just seven days. The game
consists of 21 screens which will phase through from day to
night as the game progresses. The buildings and fleet of the
Destructo Empire and destroyed from the impact of shot down
air and space craft, or by the bomb which is allocated to
each player per screen. Each impact will remove a small
section of the ship, island or building. When the missing
sections amount to a gap through to the base, a leak is
created and a water spout is formed. Most objects need three
leaks in order to be successfully destroyed.

THE DESTRUCTO TASK FORCE
GREEN PLANE - Relatively slow and harmless, occasionally
changes altitude
GREEN JET - Fast but harmless, occasionally changes
altitude.
GREEN TWO SEATER - Bounces along quite harmlessly, until hit
and then it reveals its true colours as it changes into a
deadly blue air craft!
BLUE TWO SEATER - Slow but hazardous, occasionally changes
attitude
BLUE JET - Fast and dangerous. Zips along occasionally
changing altitude.
SUCKER DART - Unstoppable and fatal!
HELICOPTER - Deadly and is likely to change direction in
mid-flight. Releases a lethal sucker dart, and remains
dangerous even after it has been shot down.
SKYMINE - Enters from the top of the screen, hovers and then
leaves the same way it arrived. An extremely dangerous
obstacle that cannot be destroyed. You'll definitely hear
this one coming.
YELLOW BOMBER - Big and dangerous. Flies along changing
altitude and dropping clusters of altitude bombs that are
harmless unless detonated, and don't imagine that your
problems are over even if you manage to shoot it down.
ALTITUDE BOMBS - Harmless until exploded, but they can be
destroyed.
SHUTTLE - Enters from the top of the screen changing altitude
and direction rapidly. Launches satellites and refuses to
give up the flight even when its been shot down.
SATELLITE - Very dangerous and likely to change altitude and
direction in mid flight.
HYPERJET - A slow starter, but there's more to this one than
meets the eye.
SPACECRAFT - Harmless
SAUCER - Beware the hovering flying saucer!

SCORING
Scores are calculated seperately per screen, and the winner
of each "points challenge" is awarded an extra life.

GREEN PLANE        10       SAUCER        50
GREEN JET          10       SHUTTLE       50
GREEN TWO SEATER   10       HYPERJET      50
BLUE TWO SEATER    10       BOMBS         10
BLUE JET           20       SPACECRAFT    10
YELLOW BOMBER      30       PARANOIA      10

CONTROLS
Joystick or keyboard
Keys are redefinable
In pause mode use: H to pause     Q to quit
For one or two players
Any combination of Joystick and keyboard can be used.

LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
Type Load"" and press ENTER.


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SCORES
Your Sinclair, October 1987, 5/10
Crash, Issue 44, 38%

URL
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/by-letter/d/
drdestru.zip

FACTS
Mastertronic got up to their name-changing tricks again with
this one. The author's title is 'The Island of Dr Destructo'.

NOTES