Destructo

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 of Keyboard. Program by Eugene Messina.

The Game

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 prepared 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 hm from carrying out his attack - but you have absolutely no tme 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 are destroyed from the impact of shot down air and space craft, or by the bomb which is allocated to each player per scren. 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 altitude

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. Releaes 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 harmles until 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 fight even when it's 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 separately per screen, and the winner of each "points challenge" is awarded an extra life.

Game Controls

Joystick or (redefinable) keys.

H - Pause. Q - Quit (whilst paused)

For one or two players. Any combination of joystick and keyboard can be used.

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