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- * SOLEAU SOFTWARE PRESENTS *
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- MICE MEN
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- v1.0
- ___________________
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- Program by William Soleau
- (c) 1992
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- Requirements: EGA/VGA GRAPHICS
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- Files Needed
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- Micemen.exe Micemen.ov1
- Micemen.ov2 Micemen.ov3
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- * Objective *
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- The object of Mice Men is to get all twelve of your color mice
- to the other end of the game board before your opponent does.
- In this version you will always be playing the blue mice and the
- computer will play the red mice.
-
-
-
- * Setting Difficulty *
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- At the opening screen, the game will ask you for the difficulty
- level of play. <H>ard <M>edium <E>asy
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- The computer will then randomly decide who will take the first
- turn.
-
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- * Play *
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- The game board consists of 19 columns and 13 rows of various cheese
- blocks. At the start of play, the blue mice are located on the
- left side of the cheese board and the red mice are on the right.
- When it is your turn to play, special pushing poles will be shown
- at the bottom of those columns where you have mice located. Using
- your left and right arrow keys you can select the column you want.
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- You can either push or pull the column up or down. This will
- shift the entire column in that direction. It will wrap around,
- so that if you have a mouse at the top of the cheese board and you
- push the column up, the mouse will now appear at the bottom.
- If it's a the bottom and you pull the column down, then it appears
- at the top.
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- By pulling and pushing columns of cheese blocks, you can create
- passageways for your mice so that they can reach the right side
- of the cheese board. The red mice are trying to get all the way
- to the left side. After a column has been pushed, that player's
- mice move as far as they can within the maze. When they can't
- move any further, the opponent's mice will then move if they can.
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- Each side takes turns pushing and pulling columns of cheese blocks
- until one player has gotten all twelve of his mice off the game
- board.
-
-
- * Columns Locked Out *
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- There are times when you will not be allowed to select a column
- even though you have mice located in it. When you have pushed
- the same column a total of 6 times in a row, it will not allow
- you to push or pull that column again until you've pushed one
- of the others. This is not the case if you have only one possible
- column to push.
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- Any column that has been pushed by an opponent on the previous turn
- is also locked out for the next turn. A column that has been locked
- out will have a yellow 'X' over the pole.
-
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- * Win/Loss/Draw *
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- The first player to get his twelve mice off the cheese board will
- be declared the winner. If each player has only one mouse left
- on the cheese board, then there will be only 8 moves left for each
- player. The mouse that's further along in the cheese board will be
- the winner. If both mice are exactly the same distance, then the
- game will be declared a draw. The game will warn you with 5 moves
- left that the game will end if no one has won by that time.
-
-
- * Keys *
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- Arrow Keys Left/Right : Select Column
- Arrow Keys Up/Down : Pushes/Pulls Column
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- <N>ew Game : Starts new game
- <S>ound : Toggles Sound On/Off
- <C>olors : Changes default colors of Cheese & Mice
- (For Laptop Players with Mono Screens)
- <L>oad : Loads a previously saved game
- <S>ave : Saves a game to be loaded later
- <Q>uit : Quit Mice Men Program
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- The Key Definitions are shown at the bottom of the board at
- all times.
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- Mice Men is easy to play, yet will involve a lot of strategy on
- your part in order to win, especially at the Hardest level of play.
- Each game board will be different, so no two games will ever be the
- same!
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-
-
- * SOLEAU SOFTWARE / REGISTRATION *
-
-
- Register Today and Become a Soleau Software Member !!!
-
-
- Registered Version
-
- This Mice Men game is distributed as Shareware. A registration fee
- of $12.00 is requested if you find this game is a worthy addition
- to your game collection. The registration will greatly speed up
- the loading and will allow for two human players. By registering
- the game you will instantly become a Soleau Software Member!
-
- All Soleau Software Members receive information and discounts on
- our other Shareware Games, plus Special Bonus Package Offers.
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- Please take the time to read the MICE_REG.DOC file which describes
- how you can get information on our many other games and how to
- become a Soleau Software Member.
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- We at Soleau Software thank you for your support and hope you
- will continue to enjoy this as well as our many other Shareware
- products.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- William Soleau
- President
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- Soleau Software
- 163 Amsterdam Ave
- Suite 213
- New York, NY 10023