There was a war between humans and aliens a couple of years ago. The humans won. Now it has been discovered that the same aliens are at it again and they have a plan to wipe out Earth. You are secret agent Bob. You were in the last battle with the aliens and it was not a pretty site. You have decided that you will stop the aliens before they attack by destroying the alien ships warp core. The aliens have lots of creatures that will hurt you along with several people that are spies for the aliens and will shoot you at glance! You are now in the alien's base, good luck!
GAME PLAY
This is you, Bob. You must and shoot all of the enemies in a level in order to go to the next level. When you have defeated all of the enemies find the transporter and walk into it to be warped to the next level. Below is a list of the keys for playing the game.
KEY(S) | RESULT
4 , left arrow | move left
6 , right arrow | move right
8 , up arrow | jump
5 , down arrow | duck
space bar | fire your weapon
Q , esc | pause your game
You may change the playing keys by clicking the "Options" button.
JUMPING
If just press the jump key, you will jump straight up and down. To jump in a direction you must move left or right then press the jump key.
DUCKING & ROLLING
When you press the duck key you will duck. This allows you to avoid enemy fire. You can duck & roll around if you move left or right key while ducking.
FIRING
Press the fire key to fire your weapon. You can also fire while jumping if you hit the fire key while jumping. Doing this will allow you to shoot enemies on different levels than you.
PAUSING
Pressing the pause key you can pause your game. While your game is paused you can save your game, end it or continue playing. To open a saved game click the Open button on the main window. After you have opened your saved game click that play button. If you decide that you wish to start at level 1 and you opened a game, just click the Reset button.
OPTIONS
OPTIONS BUTTON
On the main window, click the Options button to go to the options window. This is where all of the settings for this game are configured.
MUSIC
Bob vs The Aliens is the first FoxChange Shareware game to have background music. To turn the background music on and off, select or unselect the music button. You must have QuickTime for the background music to work.
GAME SPEED
Click the Slow, Medium, or Fast buttons to change the speed of this game.
ENEMIES
HUMAN
This machine will shoot at you to try to destroy you, duck to avoid it's shot and blast it!
ALIEN
These creatures are your worst enemies. They will do a variety of things in order to destroy you, watch out!
LAZER BIRD
This robot will come at you firing lazers. Blast it quick.
DINOSAUR
This creature is in two sizes. The large dinosaur can not be destroyed and you must move real fast and outrun it. The smaller dinosaurs can be zapped.
GRAVITY CONTROLLER
Zap this machine and all gravity will be lost.
ORB MAKER
This device makes yellow ball that chase after you. You will have to be fast to avoid the yellow balls. You can not damage the yellow balls or the Orb Maker, but you can out-run them.
ITEMS & OBJECTS
1-Up
Collect this for an extra life.
LAZER OPTION
Collect this for a cool lazer gun.
TRANSPORTER
When you have destroyed all enemies, go into this to advance to the next level.
BOXES
In the game there are some boxes that you can jump through and some that you can't. The different boxes have different patterns.
