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Avenger Help

Avenger is a Windows game based on the old arcade classic Defender. It is a normal Windows application and is resizeable, so that people with faster or slower machines can resize the window to suit their hardware and preferences.

Gameplay

Controls

Options

Top Tips

Performance

Credits

Order Form

Source and Program © Alex Dunney 1995.


Gameplay

You are in control of a spaceship which must fly over mountains protecting terrified humans on a planet from nasty green aliens called LANDERS. The landers` mission is to stun the humans and race towards space, where they turn into MUTANTS and then come after you. Your mission is to clear the planet of the nasty invaders. Your task is complicated by other aliens who are out to give you a hard time. When you have cleared the planet of all nasties, there will be a new wave of them, but this time faster, and in a much worse mood.

Beware that you can shoot the humans, this is not very nice. If all your humans die, then the mountains sink into the planet and all landers turn into mutants. You may still survive, and new humans (somewhat stupidly) recolonize the planet after every fourth wave, causing the mountains to reappear.

If all that was bad enough, there is a nasty UFO which appears and keeps reappearing if you are too slow to complete the wave.

Make sure you use the scanner as it will help you see what is ahead of you, and what is chasing you.

You have three special bombs at the start called SMART bombs, which when detonated cause everything on the screen to explode (except you). You gain one every wave.

If you shoot a lander that is snatching a human, the human will unfortunately fall towards the planet`s surface. They can survive up to a certain height, for which you will receive 250 points, or you can catch them (500 points per human) and put them down (500 points per human). Otherwise they die. The ship can carry up to four men.

You have three lives at the start, and gain one every ten thousand points.


Controls

To start a game press F2.

This game can only be properly controlled using keys, sorry but mice and joysticks are out.

Your ship can move up and down, thrust forward, fire, detonate a smart bomb and reverse. You can change the keys to suit yourself by clicking the OPTIONS menu then CHANGE KEYS... menu item. The default keys are:

UP	A
DOWN	Z
THRUST	SHIFT
FIRE	ENTER
REVERSE	SPACE BAR
SMART BOMB	TAB


Options

The following are the game options (in the Options menu):

- Turn the background from shaded blue (default) to black.

- Change the mountain type between textured (default), solid and line.

- Change the keys.

- Turn the scanner on (default) or off.

- Turn the sound on (default) or off.

To make the game look more like the original you can turn the background to black and the mountains to a line.


Top Tips

- Be sparing with your smart bombs as they become very useful on later waves.

- Do not try to run from the UFO, it is best to face it head on.

- Catching and putting down falling men is worth a lot of points.


Performance

If the game seems sluggish, then you can do the following:

- Make the application window smaller until the game speeds up.

- If your machine has a slow processor, but a fast graphics card, try changing the mountains type to single line or solid, and the background to black (see Options).

- Buy a faster machine.


Credits

Written by:

Alex Dunney

Thanks to:

Sean O`Connor

Matt Whiting

Victoria Whiting

Mark Boden

Darran Bryant

James Rowley

Manos Tsentides

Roger Nicklas

This game uses Sean O`Connor`s excellent Setup and Sound Generator programs.


Order Form

To order the full version of Avenger, please send:

UK and worldwide orders:

£15 per copy to Alex Dunney

109 Cambridge Road, Great Shelford, Cambridge CB25JJ, England.

send cash, cheques or EUROCHEQUES in pounds sterling.

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If you have a printer, this order form can be printed out by clicking on Print Topic from the File menu.