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First there was one alien space station, then there were three. Now there are eight. If left unchecked, laser gates, dragons, and other evil creatures will wipe out the human race.
To destroy each station, you'll have to confront the aliens in face-to-face combat and discover the secret destruct code. Once you have the code, use it to activate the station's self-destruction mechanism. Then the race begins. Can you get to the teleport room before the station explodes into the vacuum of space?
Are you ready? Remember, you'll need precision battle skills, a keen sense of direction, speed, and pure guts to save the human race.
Note: This game has a password feature, but using a password more than once will be considered cheating for this week (ie, you can use it as a pause feature, but please don't use it to retry a difficult part of the game over and over again).
Game Information
Post your scores right here in this thread, and I will add them to the list. Remember to play the game with the recommended game mode and difficulty settings as shown above so that your scores will be consistent with everyone elses. The deadline for posting scores is Wednesday December 1st at 1:00 AM (Central Time, UTC-6). |
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Hints and Tips
The Manual
As always, you really should read the manual. In case you don't have the manual, AtariAge has a typed copy available online. Here are the hints it provides:
- Learn your way around the stations by drawing a map as you go.
- If you are in a multi-level station, write down the code you find on each level so you will be able to remember the entire code when you enter the room containing the self-destruction mechanism.
- Avoid losing all of your energy. If you lose all of your energy, you can't use a weapon. If you can't use a weapon to destroy aliens, you will not be able to get oxygen. If you can't get oxygen, you will not live long. Neither will the human race.
Scrabbler15
1. Attack the enemies by trying to line up exactly with the sides, top, or bottom of the enemy. The sword does not attack diagonally, but the enemies will attack diagonally.
2. In the earlier rounds, a hit on the enemy will make them de-rez and rematerialize somewhere else on the screen. Try to stay clear of the de-rezzing area until the enemy has returned.
3. Try attacking the enemies in a 'tag, you're it' fashion. If you lunge with the sword and miss, at least you will still be moving away, and maybe won't take a hit. This becomes more important in the later rounds, because some enemies (e.g. spinners) take two hits to cause the de-rezzing.
4. Here's a 'master of the obvious' tip. Don't let the enemies touch you when you attack them. It's really important for getting deep into this game. Each touch by an enemy sucks away energy or oxygen, so too many enemy touches ends the game before you can get that big score.
4. Know where you are. Map it out. Play a lot.
5. Get all the enemies in a round before triggering the auto-destruct. You can leave a round without getting all the enemies, but the missing points are hard to get back and there is no bonus for clearing a round.
6. In round two, if you get to the auto-destruct machine and forget one of the codes to put in, put the one in you know and try each of the codes for the second one. You'll know that you hit the code when the countdown starts. This tip also works for round three, if you only remember two of the codes. If you're more diligent than I am and you write down the codes, this tip is irrelevant.
oyamafamily
Check out oyamafamily's walkthrough here.
--Zero
