Instructions

Hummy has a problem. He has lots of ravenous chicks to feed with nectar and even more enemies to avoid. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to push drops of water into the rainbows which magically transport them to the chicks store. Fill the larder and press TAB to escape to the next level before all hell breaks loose.

Foes

Foes which you meet on your travels are:

1. Wasps
   The most deadly and persistent enemy. They will chase you anywhere. One sting is too much for a tiny hummingbird.
2. Caterpillars
   Stupid but annoying creatures that wander seemingly aimlessly but should be avoided at all costs. Block them in or drop a bat on their heads!
3. Bats
   Harmless in themselves since they are asleep during daylight hours but should Hummy fly underneath them, they will awake and fall from their perches. Tarry too long and they'll flatten him in the process.
4. Venus Fly Traps
   Beautiful but deadly.
5. Coins
   These spinning, shiny objects may look attractive but have a nasty habit or rebounding nectar drops at Hummy so that he meets a very sticky end.
6. Spiders
   Slow, but never give up. They eat nectar and lay eggs which are vulnerable for a while, but quickly hatch into new spiders.

Useful Hints And Objects

1. Swats
   Picking up a swat makes wasps run away like scared little bunnies as you can kill them for a short while. However, the effect only lasts for a short while and then the screen will flash when they are about to turn back on you, madder than ever!
2. Cacti
   These can be pushed along in any direction. Very useful for blocking!
3. Map
   A map is provided for each of the eight levels and you *will* need to use it.
4. Nectar
   The raison d'etre for hummingbirds, push them into the rainbows to feed them to your chicks. They can also be magically controlled so that you can stop a droplet by releasing the push key (RETURN) at any time. This is sometimes necessary.
5. Flowers
   Hummy can pollinate them by flying over them so that they turn into nectar.
6. Buds
   No use until the Magidrop is collected.
7. Magidrop
   Each level has a Magidrop on it. When collected, all the bugs bloom. The Magidrop is the whizzy-looking one and, yes, there are only four colours used in the game!

Your must fill the chicks' larder with nectar. As each drop is delivered, they will tweet for more until their appetites are satisfied but beware, once the larder is full everything hits the fan, the wasps become more numerous and furious. All you have to do is press TAB to escape to the next level, but can you do it, with your adrenalin pumping, when you're all fingers and thumbs, and when a swarm of wasps is on your tail...?!

Think it's easy? Well, Nectar Collector may start off easy, but it gets progressively harder until level 8 which to my knowledge has only been completed by one person... me! Nobody at Superior Software managed it. Are you up to the challenge? It may look cutesy but appearances can be deceptive!

Loading

Nectar Collector may be loaded and run using the Repton Infinity package by Superior Software. It may not be used without this package!

There are four files: G.Nectar & G.Nectar2 are levels 1-4 and levels 5-8 respectively and can be loaded by pressing L on the Repton Infinity menu followed by NECTAR and NECTAR2.