Liquid Kids =========== How To Play ----------- You are the creature Hipopo and your mission is to save the land of Woody Lake from the Fire Devil. You can do this by using the magical powers of your crystal ball to create water globes. These globes freeze enemies, extinguish fires... and do other things too. The following techniques will help you to complete the many levels of Liquid Kids. 1. Hold the fire button down to make your water globes more powerful. In general, you can freeze more enemies at once with a larger gush of water. You can also cause more injury to bosses with a larger globe. However, it may also be wiser to hit bosses with smaller globes so that there are multiple water gushes (which usually take out such hazards as small enemies and fire walls). 2. When you see ceiling spikes attached to a chain, you can walk on top of the spikes when the platform is lowered. 3. The water globes bounce off walls and most ceilings. Try ricocheting them off walls and taking out enemies with bouncing globes. 4. Water gushes downward. You can injure or freeze enemies by popping a water globe on something above them (usually another enemy!) and causing water to fall on them. 5. Don't worry about pools of water because you'll pull out an inner tube and will not drown. Watch out for any piranhas in the water, though! 6. When on a springboard, push up + jump when you bounce in order to bounce higher. 7. You can fire a maximum of four water globes (More if you collect the Water Pistol). Collectables ------------ Water Pump ... Water globes fill up faster. Water Bucket ... Water globes' maximum size increases. Water Pistol ... More globes can be fired. Water Cock ... Gives temporary Water Pump, Water Pistol and Water Bucket effects. Train ... Hipopo moves faster. Warning: The effect is cumulative! Boot ... ??? Lightning 1 ... All enemies on the screen are frozen. Lightning 2 ... All enemies on the screen are killed. Game Controls ------------- Normal joystick movements apply. Pushing up will jump; you will jump higher the longer the joystick is pushed in the up direction. The fire button will throw a water globe. Holding down the fire button makes a larger water globe. Scoring ------- Killing an enemy ... 100 points Grabbing boots ... 1,000 points Note: If an enemy is kicked into another enemy while frozen, the scores for each additional enemy kill are increased by as follows: 100-200-300-400-500-800 points. After 800, you will either get 1000 points or a special item.