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- COMMANDO RAID INSTRUCTIONS AND INFO
-
- INTRODUCTION
- The year is 2067. The President of the United States has been kidnapped by
- terrorists, and is now being held for ransom. The US government has decided
- that rather than paying the ransom for the president, it will send a single
- special forces team to rescue him, thus saving them a great deal of money.
-
- You are part of the commando team that has been ordered to rescue the
- president. Your team will fly to the terrorist's base in a helicopter,
- descend into the base, and attempt to rescue the president.
-
- The terrorist base is actually a giant cave dug several miles deep into
- the ground. You will have to travel through four caverns to reach the place
- where the President is being held.
-
- The terrorists will unfortunately be aware of your presence, and will have
- resistance forces waiting for you. Additionally, due to the heavy demands
- made upon your helicopter for the descent, fuel will be consumed very
- quickly. You will have to refuel often by shooting or bombing the fuel tanks
- strewn throughout the base.
-
- CONTROLS
- You control your helicopter with a joystick in port 1. Move the joystick
- to move the helicopter in all eight directions. Pressing fire will shoot
- a laser horizontally, and pressing fire and down at the same time will drop a
- bomb.
-
- Press P at any time to pause.
- Press ESC at any time to quit.
-
- INFO
- This is my first game written in Blitz Basic 2! If you have seen my
- other game, Bucktooth Bob, you'll probably say it's a big improvement...
- I really like BB2 and I think it's a much better language than AMOS, I
- reccommend it very highly.
- This game represents a lot of hard (but fun) work for me. If you feel
- generous, please consider sending me a donation. Also, the entire Blitz Basic
- 2 source code is available, on-disk, for $7. In any case, please contact
- me if you have any comments, suggestions, etc.
- My email address (at least until July of 1994) is: wn22@cmu.edu
- My home address is:
- William Nolan
- 1815 Wightman St.
- Pittsburgh, PA
- 15217
-
- MISCELLANEOUS
- If you happen to see my high school senior picture floating around
- somewhere in the game, don't be alarmed. I don't really look like that.
- First of all I'm older than I was then, and secondly, the image itself
- has been totally butchered by being scanned, converted from GIF to IFF,
- resized, having the color removed from it, etc, etc... On the positive
- side, I managed to edit the picture a bit so my hair looks better. Thanks
- to Mitch Franzos for scanning the original.
- Also, there's a secret code in the game. If you email me, I'll tell it
- to you (if you're THAT stuck in the game, which I doubt anyone with an
- experienced joystick hand would be).
-
- OTHER STUFF
- If you liked this game you might like Bucktooth Bob, although it's not as
- good, it's kind of funny. I got a lot of email messages saying that it lacked
- anything resembling gameplay though, and I really tried to make up for that
- with Commando Raid.
- I'm looking for some people who are interested in game development to maybe
- form a group with me. As you can probably tell, I'm not the world's
- greatest musician, artist, animator, or game designer -- but I'm a pretty good
- programmer. Any artists or musicians or people with game ideas out there can
- get in touch with me via my email address.
- Finally, if anyone wants to put this game in a disk magazine, please contact
- me, as I'd love it if that happened. Please distribute the game freely, and
- shareware distributors should not charge anything for it except a small
- fee for the disk, etc.
-
- COMMANDO RAID 2?!
- Well....MAYBE. If I get enough people saying they liked the game, I
- might consider writing a sequel and distributing it for a small fee to
- interested people. But unless there's a demand, I probably won't.
- Future projects I have in mind include a role-playing game based on a
- unique system I developed, and maybe a sequel to my (very) old game for
- the IBM, Niterun. I had actually written a big version of Niterun 2
- using AMOS only to discover that AMOS was too slow to handle the whole
- thing, but I think I'd have better luck with Blitz.
-
- I hope you like the game!
-