Game Objective

It is the year 3000 A.D. The chief form of entertainment is the arena, where humanoids battle with the mutants. Your only defence is a death ray, which always fires in the direction of travel.

Usually the mutants will only die after being hit several times. You will die instantly if you touch, or are touched, by a mutant.

As you clear each wave of mutants, they will be replaced by more of a different type.

You start the game with three "lives" but gain an extra one for each 20,000 points.

First, decide how you are going to control the game. There are three options:

1. Keyboard
   Z - Left, X - Right, * - Up, ? - Down, RETURN/SPACE - Fire
   
   Press the Space Bar to start.
2. Single Joystick
   Press a Fire button to start. Use the joystick on which you pressed Fire to control your movement.
3. Dual Joysticks
   Press D to start.
   Use the 'left' joystiick to move and the 'right' joystick to control direction of shooting. Shooting is continous so you don't have to worry about fire buttons as well!

With options 1 and 2, you always shoot in the direction in which you last moved, with option 3 the direction of shooting is controlled with the right-hand joystick.

During the game, the 'S' and 'Q' buttons will turn the sound on and off respectively. If you want to answer the phone or draw breath you can pause the game by pressing the SHIFT LOCK button and continue again afterwards by pressing CAPS LOCK.

Top Ten Scores

If your score is in the Top Ten, you will be asked for your name to identify you in the Hall of Fame.

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