Genre: | Platform Game |
Publisher: | Icon |
Cover Art Language: | English |
Machine Compatibility: | Acorn Electron |
Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
Available For: | Acorn Electron & BBC Model B |
Compatible Emulators: | Elkulator 1.0 (PC (Windows)) |
Original Release Date: | 30th August 1985 |
Original Release Price: | £7.95 |
Market Valuation: | £26.98 (How Is This Calculated?) |
Item Weight: | 64g |
Box Type: | Bubble Clamshell single cassette black |
Author(s): | P. A. Morgan & D. J. 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
A little strange to begin with, but it will soon become a favourite in your collection. 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
Reviewed in the annual Models Games Guides: Acorn Electron.
Drain Mania is a game where a love of sewers is an advantage! You play the part of Theodore, an athletic young chap who wanders the various tunnels of the system in search of a way out. But the sewers are inhabited by mutant sewer creatures who get washed down the drains at the top and slither down to the bottom. During their dangerous descent, you must either avoid or kill them. This is achieved by head-butting them up through the floor so that they fall over, then kicking them out of the way. If you fail to kick them, they will get back up and pursue you even more viciously than ever!
Any encounter with the creatures will result in death. Each creature has a different resistance to head-butts - some require more than one butt to make them fall over. Butting the Zap block causes all creatures on the screen to die, but this can only be used three times. Occasionally, water or fire balls are ejected from the pipes. These must be avoided.
Coins lost down the gutters are hanging from the ceilings. These can be collected, and if you get a tunnel full of coins, you should try to collect them all before the beasties catch up with you.
You can move left and right or jump, but beware of the slime underfoot. Some tunnels have different slipperiness factors, so tread carefully. You can avoid death by becoming invisible, but only for a short time on each screen. You get a bonus life and extra Zap block at 10,000 and 30,000 points.
During loading, you can define your own playing keys for Left, Right, Low Jump, High Jump and Invisible.
DELETE/COPY - Pause/Restart, ESCAPE - Quit Game, S - Sound On/Off, M - Music On/Off
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