Genre: | Platform Game |
Publisher: | Icon |
Cover Art Language: | English |
Machine Compatibility: | BBC Model B |
Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
Available For: | Acorn Electron & BBC Model B |
Compatible Emulators: | BeebEm (PC (Windows)) PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)) Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) |
Original Release Date: | 11th May 1985 |
Original Release Price: | £7.95 |
Market Valuation: | £19.65 (How Is This Calculated?) |
Item Weight: | 64g |
Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Clear |
Author(s): | P. A. Morgan, D. J. Morgan & P.A. Morgan |
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I like this game immensely. It is classy, difficult and downright addictive. Read Review
Easy to play but hard enough to be addictive. Read Review
Not one of Icon's better games. It lacks excitement and challenge, and after a few goes has little more to offer even the most avid games player. Read Review
It's colourful, the animation is good and the screens are well presented... Some appeal to the arcade freak, but for a short time only I'm afraid. Read Review
On the whole I quite like the game. It has large colourful sprites and there are some nice touches that make it a little different. Read Review
Drain Mania is a game where a love of sewers is an advantage - you play the part of an athletic chap called Theodore, who roams the various corridors of the system in search of a way out...
Plummeting from the drainage pipes at the top of the screen to the collection pipes at the bottom, slide various sewer beasts named Inky, Pinky and Dinky. During their dangerous descent you must either avoid or kill them. They will fall if you first dislodge their feet by head-butting them from below the floor and then kicking them out of your way...
Any encounter with an upright beast will result in a very unpleasant death! Each creature has a different strength. Dinky, for example, requires three head-butts before it topples over.
Head-butting the Zap block causes everything on the screen to topple. This, however, may only be used three times.
Now and again, water or fire balls are ejected from the pipes; these must be avoided. Coins discarded from the streets above hang from the floors to make your journey worthwhile.
Occasionally, you may come across a tunnel full of coins; collect these before the beasts catch up with you...
Theodore can move left, right or jump to a new floor. Some corridors are more slippery than others so make sure you tread carefully! Theodore may also become invisible for a short time on each screen. Bonus life and Zap block at 10,000 and 30,000 points.
Finally, if you fail to kick a beast before it flips back onto its feet, the creature becomes even more ferocious!
No-one has yet escaped from the tunnels of Drain Mania. Will you be the first?
All movement keys user-definable.
S - Sound Off/On, M - Music Off/On
DELETE/COPY - Pause On/Off, ESCAPE - Quit Game
CHAIN"" (RETURN)
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