Stairways

The night was young, the music loud and heavy, the joint was as they say, jumping. I had arrived at the club (Stairways) after a bracing ferry ride from the Pier Head in old Liverpool, a seemingly innocent start to what was to prove a night of terror.

"The band played on."

Music swam into my head, the several drinks of which I'd partaken bringing drowsiness in their wake. Suddenly the room began to swish around in time with the rhythm of the sounds coming from the band, then it all became clear. I was alone but for the band and the euphemistically named doorman, there were drinks a-plenty on the bar, food in abundance in the Burger Kiosk; all the good you might think, but there was a sinister side to my surreal situation...

Around the almost deserted club were glasses, half empty, left where their previous owners had abandoned them; amongst the glasses I could see the unmistakable glitter of gold, with a shuffer I realised these were none other than the lost pieces of the legendary amulet of the great budgie WONGA. I knew then that I must collect these together in order to escape from this nightmare.

As I moved amongst the discarded glasses and empty chairs, I was horrified to see huge ill-cobbled brown boots flying through the air towards me: the only thing I could do to avoid being trampled by them was to project the bubble-like thought forms which had been fermenting in my brain.

This, however, had the effect of sobering me up which made the bubbles harder to project - back to the bar; I had managed to avoid or disperse most of the boots, but when one or more of them hit me, I felt myself slipping ever closer to death, a feeling accentuated when I was hungry - to the burger bar to replenish my tummy - accidentally I knocked over a glass.

This was a mistake, the doorman loomed large. As he approached I stood quaking - rooted to the spot - the next thing I remember was spinning through the air - then the whole nightmare began again. Help me....!!

Strategy

1. Collect the pieces of the Golden Wonga whilst avoiding glasses, shooting and avoiding baddies.
2. When all pieces are collected, get back to the bars for a drink and some food.
3. Wait for the time to reach 000.

Status Line

On the status there are the following controls:

1. Hunger level
   When this reaches zero you will start to lose energy. It is therefore essential to keep this level as high as possible. This is done by visits to the burger bar. Here the level will 'increase'. Don't get too full, otherwise you will be bounced out of the club.
2. Sober level
   This works identically to the hunger level except one must visit the drinks bar for some 'falling down pop'.
3. Energy level
   This cannot be increased in any way as you have a set amount of energy to complete each level. Energy is lost however by:
   
   1. being hit by baddies
   2. zero sober level
   3. zero hunger level
4. Lives
   Believe it or not, this informs you of how many lives you have left.
5. Box at bottom
   This contains the name of your current level, it has little importance to the general play of the game, other than to indicate how far into the game you are.

Game Controls

Z - Left, X - Right, L - Fire, P - Jump, +/- - Music on/off during game

Joystick plugged into port two if preferred. Up invokes a jump.

Stairways Features

Full colour smoothscroll, 45 different levels, bouncer, fully animated rock group, head bangers, burger bars, dance floor, drunkies bar, mushrooms, glasses, golden Wonga, scrolling message - so what's new?, fast bouncy music, sarcasm, budgies

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