| Genre: | Unknown Genre Type |
| Publisher: | Micro Power |
| Cover Art Language: | English |
| Machine Compatibility: | BBC Model B |
| Release: | Professionally released on Cassette |
| Available For: | BBC Model B |
| Compatible Emulators: | BeebEm (PC (Windows)) PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)) Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) |
| Original Release Date: | 5th March 1983 |
| Original Release Price: | £8.20 |
| Market Valuation: | £2.50 (How Is This Calculated?) |
| Item Weight: | 64g |
| Box Type: | Cassette Single Plastic Black |
| Author(s): | T. Mabbs |
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Cassette
A&B Computing
1st May 1984
The graphics are fairly good, but then again there are not opportunities to show off the good graphics of the Beeb in this sort of game. Read Review
Games Computing
1st March 1984
Although this game is slightly mystifying at first, it proved to be extremely playable. Read Review
Full Instructions
The Game
Once loaded, the options in Laser Command must be set. These are as follows:
| ← | One player |
| → | Two player |
| 0-9 | Skip Level (Skill level) |
| P | Paged mode (on/off) Paged mode on waits for space to be pressed while holding down one of the movement keys (W, E, O or P) to indicate that the player is ready and in position after each new screen |
| I | Intelligent bombs only |
| D | Dumb bombs only |
| B | Both types of bomb |
| S | Spaceships (on/off) (from level 4 onwards) |
| C | Continuous screens: 'x Points' not displayed |
| J | Control sights from the joystick |
| K | Control sights from the keyboard |
| SPACE | Starts game |
Game Controls
To move the sights, the controls are as follows:
W - Left, E - Right, P - Up, O - Down, DELETE - Fire missile
N - Lay mine (up to 10 mines), V - Detonate mines, f0-9 - Store/recall pattern of mines
SHIFT/CTRL - Pause/Restart, ESCAPE - Return to Options
If your laser base is hit, you lose 10 missiles and you must wait for the base to be rebuilt. If no missiles are left, the base is not rebuilt. An extra city is awarded for every 10,000 points scored and the skill level is incremented every 5,000 points.
Loading
PAGE=&E00 (RETURN)
*LOAD (RETURN)
When the prompt (>_) returns, type:
OLD (RETURN)
RUN (RETURN)
The program will then start.
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| Download | What It Contains |
|---|---|
 | A digital version of Laser Command suitable for BeebEm (PC (Windows)), PcBBC (PC (MS-DOS)), Model B Emulator (PC (Windows)) |
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