Contraption

The potty professor has invented the craziest crankiest machine ever devised - the contraption!

Enter his zany world and explore the weird and wonderful rooms of his mansion. Experience some of the best graphics ever seen on the BBC and feverishly search for the golden apples which feel his wonderful invention.

Encounter poisonous plants, bouncing bombs, pumping pistons, devious devils, swooping spiders, diving dodos, sneaky snowmen, plunging platforms, jiving jellyfish... in fact, you name it and it's here!

You must guide the professor round the rounds, picking up all the golden apples, then between each of ten rooms you must take the apples and feed them to the Contraption.

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, : - Jump
Q/S - Sound Off/On, DELETE/COPY - Pause/Resume

Space Ranger

You are the pilot of a lunar module sent to rescue a team of stranded astronauts from the surface of the moon. The moon is pitted with craters and there are only five flat landing pads where you can land. You have only four modules, so collisions must be avoided. Unfortunately, there is an asteroid storm going on! Your mission is to guide the module down from orbit, through the asteroids, and land safely on one of the landing pads. Then you have to take of back through the asteroids to resume your orbiting pattern. You must keep down this until you have landed at each of the five pads. Only then can you move on to the next mission - and it'll be a tougher one!

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, RETURN - Thrust
SHIFT - Release from orbit/take off from moon

Stix

The Stix is a bundle of energy that roams the universe destroying all in its path. However, a freak cosmic storm has trapped the Stix in a warped hypersquare giving you the opportunity to harness its evil power for the good of mankind. But to keep the Stix under control, you must restrict its movement by constructing force fields inside the hypersquare using your field synthesizers. There are four hazards to overcome...

1. Above all, avoid being hit by the Stix - if it touches any part of an incomplete force field, the field synthesizer will disintegrate.
2. If you pause for more than an instant while constructing the field, the field stabiliser will disengage, destroying the field synthesizer unless you can complete the field in time. You will get warning of this by the field flashing red and green.
3. There are two primitive particles of matter left over from the cosmic storm, a quark and an anti-quark. They move in opposite directions around the boundary and will destroy your synthesizer if they hit it.
4. You must ensure that your energy cells do not discharge, otherwise your entire supply field synthesizer will be lost!

Game Controls

A - Left, S - Right, W - Up, Z - Down

Hold down < to move slowly or > to move quickly.

Otherwise, use joystick to move, holding down the Fire button to move slowly or release it to move quickly.

Scoring

You score 20 points for each 1% of the hypersquare that you manage to fill using slow mode, but if you move quickly, you only get two points. When you have restricted the Stix by filling in more than 75% of the square, you will move onto a new dimension, scoring 100 bonus points for each 1% over the 75%. You start with four field synthesizers. To start a new game, press RETURN.

Caveman Capers

Ogg the Caveman has discovered a new form of transport - Kickstart the turtle. All day long he tries to train Kickstart to jump and run. However, the turtle isn't too keen and Kickstart keeps falling flat on his face.

Help Ogg master the art of turtle-riding and get him to the phonebox to tell his wife he'll be late for tea.

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, RETURN - Jump
Q/S - Sound Off/On

To set initials in hi-score table, use Z and X to move cursor, then select letters with RETURN.

Ultron

The year 2673 AD and the galaxy is once more under seige from aliens of the planet Gorfia. Your mission is to destroy the oncoming convoys with speed, skill, and dexterity. This time the invaders are more sophisticated and much more determined to eradicate you. But you have the most powerful craft in the universe - the Ultron!

You begin your mission as a Cadet, but may rise through the ranks and become the ultimate Space Master. There are eight ranks to go through and even then it gets even harder. Four screens go together to make up one wave. The screens are:

1. Space Swarmers
   Swarming mutants who release hordes of homing missiles - worth 30 points
2. Galactic Imps
   Approaching infantry whose sole aim is to infiltrate your defences - 50 points
3. Space Warp
   Aliens that loom out in 3D distracting you with the aim of disintegrating your craft - 100 points
4. Mothership
   Blast the aliens' supreme commander, situated in the nerve centre of the Mothership - 200 points

Occasionally a reconnaissance ship will fly past over the scene, dropping missiles. The points for hitting the ship are randomly either 250 or 500 points.

Game Controls

A - Left, S - Right, RETURN - Fire, S/Q - Sound On/Off, ESCAPE - Abort

Wizzy's Mansion

Wizzy the wizard has over 50 rooms in his mansion, but an uninvited monster has taken over his attic. As a wizard, Wizzy is a bit incompetent and he needs your help to search his mansion for the books of spells that are lying around in various rooms. Once he has enough books, he ought to be able to concoct a spell to destroy the monster. But it's not very easy to get around as Wizzy's blunderings have made all sorts of objects come to life and hinder his progress!

Game Overview

Wizzy, the incompetent wizard, has a problem - a nasty monster has taken over the room at the top of his mansion. In order to get of the monster, Wizzy must cast a spell - but he can't remember the right one. The pages of his book of spells are scattered throughout the different rooms, so he must search the rooms picking up all the pages that he finds.

Unfortunately, his blundering spells have made all sorts of objects come to life and turn nasty! You must guide him through the mansion, picking up the pages and avoiding the nasty objects. Falling too far is also deadly.

You start with eight livs and get a bonus Wizzy for every ten pages found.

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, SHIFT - Jump

Wongo

It's early evening in China. The birds have gone to roost and everyone has gone home - except you! You are Wongo, the bomb disposal expert. It's a busy time for you as factions opposing the Emperor have just invented gunpowder and have been planting bombs along that most ancient of monuments - the Great Wall.

It's your job to go and defuse these bombs by travelling along the Great Wall on your official form of transport - a pogo stick! But the Wall is in need of repair, and gaping holes have appeared over the years, some containing deadly creatures. You'll have to get past these to defuse the bombs.

There are twelve bombs to defuse altogether, and if you manage all these you get another twelve that require a higher skill level. Every time you defuse five bombs in succession without losing a life, a 25,000 point bonus is awarded. Plus an extra life is awarded every 20,000 points (but you can have no more than seven lives at any one time). There are three skill levels that can be set during the high score sheet.

Wongo Game Controls

A - Left, S - Right, RETURN - Jump
P/O - Pause/Resume, Y/N - Sound On/Off

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Tape:
*TAPE (RETURN)

Choose the correct cassette and wind to the appropriate place (if more than one game is located on it) then type:

Contrapton:
CHAIN"" (RETURN)

Space Ranger:
CHAIN"RANGER" (RETURN)

Stix:
*RUN (RETURN)

Caveman Capers:
CHAIN"" (RETURN)

Ultron:
*RUN"ULTRON" (RETURN)

Wizzy's Mansion:
CHAIN"" (RETURN)

Wongo:
*RUN"WONGO" (RETURN)

Disc:
Hold SHIFT and tap BREAK to boot disc.