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- Epic MegaGames Ken's Labyrinth
- 10406 Holbrook Drive Created by Ken Silverman
- Potomac, MD 20854 Artwork by Future Crew
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-
- ** KEN'S LABYRINTH **
-
- ABOUT THE GAME:
-
- Ken's Labyrinth is a 3D arcade game featuring high-res 256-color graphics,
- music, and digital sound effects. Ken's Labyrinth consists of three episodes:
-
- 1. The Search for Sparky
- 2. Sparky's Revenge
- 3. Find the Way Home
-
- Requirements:
- ■ IBM AT-Compatible computer (386 or 486 highly recommended)
- ■ VGA Graphics
- ■ 512K of total memory (at least 365K available)
- ■ About 1 megabyte of hard disk space
-
- Also supports:
- ■ EMS and XMS memory support (for faster play)
- ■ Joystick or Gravis Gamepad for control
- ■ Mouse
- ■ Sound Blaster or Adlib card (great music!)
-
-
- HOW TO START
- ============
-
- Before playing, you need to run SETUP to tell the game what hardware you
- have. Simply type "SETUP", and go through the menu choices and select your
- hardware from the lists of choices.
-
- Note: If you play the game without running SETUP, it should work fine, but
- you'll miss the music, sound effects, and high-res graphics.
-
- Once you've run SETUP once, you'll be able to start playing. Type "KEN" to
- begin. If the game does not start properly, you probably have given an
- incorrect piece of information in the SETUP program, so type SETUP again to
- remedy this.
-
-
- TROUBLE SHOOTING
- ================
-
- IF THE SCREEN IS GARBLED: Go into setup and set the graphics mode to 1. This
- mode should work properly on all video cards.
-
- WINDOWS & OS/2: If you take a few precautions, this game should work properly
- from Windows and OS/2. To make it work, we suggest that you do the
- following in SETUP:
-
- * If you don't have a music card, turn sound effects OFF. The method this
- game uses to generate sound will probably crash under Windows and OS/2.
-
- * Set the graphics mode to 1.
-
- IF THE GAME DOESN'T FUNCTION PROPERLY: This game may be conflicting with some
- of the TSR's and memory managers you have in memory. We suggest removing
- the TSR's and memory managers from your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files
- and trying again. Or, create a boot disk and start Ken's Labyrinth from
- the boot disk.
-
- NOTE TO OWNERS OF "STACKER" AND "SUPERSTOR": If this game does not work
- properly on a compressed hard disk volume, we recommend installing it on
- a non-compressed drive (usually referred to as D:, E:, or F:). See your
- Stacker or SuperStor manual for instructions on doing this.
-
-
- THE STORY
- =========
-
- The fate of the Planet Earth is in your hands. The scientific
- community on the planet Zogar has been searching the universe for the
- alien races capable of providing them with worthy entertainment. Of
- course, their entertainment consists of placing specimens from
- alien races together into a dangerous labyrinth. Some have been
- extremely intelligent, but were lacking in physical skills. Others
- were great warriors but lacked the intelligence needed to solve the
- clever traps invented by the Zogarians. In an attempt to keep
- the universe clean, the planets containing races whose specimens
- could not solve the labyrinth have had their molecular structure
- reconfigured into coal that fuels the stoves which make red jelly
- that Zogarians love on their bagels and toast. The Zogarians are led by
- an infinitely evil (and ugly) creature simply named "Ken". You'll
- find out more about him in episode three.
-
- By cover of night the Zogarians traveled to earth and picked up a
- representative of Earth's most intelligent beings. So, now they've
- got your dog Sparky. After thorough interrogation of Sparky, the
- Zogarians found out that dogs, in addition to being great companions,
- are the universe's most highly intelligent beings and have been
- conducting experiments on humans for years. While most of those
- experiments consisted of things like convincing humans to throw
- balls to them over and over again, the Zogarians nonetheless became
- fearful of canine intelligence. Instead of testing Sparky, who is
- obviously smart enough to escape their traps, they decided it would
- be safer for them to merely lock him up and get his human "master"
- for their experiments. Of course, that's you, isn't it? Now, they've
- secretly brought you to Zogar and you're being tested on behalf of
- the whole human race. You will be judged by your performance in the
- danger-filled labyrinth. So far, 26 civilizations have been tested in
- the labyrinth, and 26 planets have become fuel for the jelly makers.
- In addition to having the fate of your planet in your hands, you
- probably should also "Search for Sparky" while you're here because
- you'll need him to finish the game. By the way, on top of the labyrinth
- is the spectators' box, where the leaders of the Zogar Imperial
- Empire have been watching and they may sometimes shout insults down at
- you.
-
-
- CONTROLS
- ========
-
- This is a list of the default keys used to control Ken's Labyrinth.
- You can change these choices by running "SETUP" and redefining the keys.
- If you do this, remember what your new key choices are.
-
- Key Purpose
- ----------- -----------------------
- Up Arrow......Move FORWARD
- Down Arrow....Move BACKWARD
- Left Arrow....Turn LEFT
- Right Arrow...Turn RIGHT
- Left Shift....RUN
- Right CTRL....STRAFE (walk sideways)
- Left CTRL.....SHOOT
- F1............Weapon 1 (red FIREBALLS)
- F2............Weapon 2 (green BOUNCY-BULLETS)
- F3............Weapon 3 (HEAT-SEEKING MISSILES)
- Space.........ACTION KEY (Unlock/Open/Close/Use)
- "A"...........STAND HIGH
- "Z"...........STAND LOW
- Enter.........RAISE/LOWER STATUS BAR
- "P"...........PAUSE GAME
- "M"...........MUTE GAME (Sound off)
- Escape........SHOW MENU (load, save, quit, etc)
-
-
- THINGS YOU'LL FIND IN KEN'S LABYRINTH
- =====================================
-
- OBJECTS THAT HELP YOU:
-
- Bullets - You can get up to six bullet powers of each kind of bullet.
- The more bullet powers you have, the more often you can shoot.
-
- Red jelly (red) - Just a simple straight-flying bullet.
-
- Bouncy bullets (fireballs) - These bullets bounce off all walls
- that you cannot normally walk through.
-
- Heat Seeking Missiles - They seek out and destroy the enemies on the
- screen; some enemies generate more heat than others and will attract
- the missiles better. The missiles also hit with double power.
-
- Lightnings - You can get up to six lightnings. The more lightnings
- you have, the farther each bullet will travel.
-
- Extra Lives - You can get up to 4 extra lives. When you die, the floor
- does NOT reset. However you do go back to the starting position.
- If you have no extra lives when you die, the game is over!
-
- Keys - There both gold and silver keys. The gold key unlocks gold doors,
- and the silver key unlocks silver doors! Both disappear after each
- level is completed.
-
- Life bar - Near the top of the status bar there is a red life bar; if
- the whole bar is red you are perfectly healthy. When the
- bar turns completely white, you die.
-
- Apple - Gives you some life.
-
- Meals (meat and a glass) - Gives twice as much life as apples.
-
- First-aid kits - Gives twice as much life as meals.
-
- Coins - You can put these in soda or slot machines for a reward.
-
- Gems - Worth several coins each.
-
- Soda Machines - Scattered around various boards. After inserting a
- coin by pressing space bar next to one, you can pick and choose
- an object to buy. It may be wise to save up coins for the
- more powerful items.
-
- Slot Machines - Scattered around various boards. After inserting a
- coin by pressing space bar next to one, you may get 1 to 200 coins
- if you win; but if you lose, tough luck.
-
- Magical items - These items last for about 30 seconds, then they
- disappear. If you have two of the same type of magical item
- at the same time, then you will have 60 seconds of use, for
- three - 90 seconds of use, etc.
-
- Purple potions - Hits monsters with more power every time they are
- shot, allows red and orange bullets to pass through walls
- that you can't walk through and reduces the damage you take.
-
- Green potions - Reflects enemy bullets back at the enemy, damaging
- them as one of your red bullets would.
-
- Gray cloak - Enemies and their bullets pass right through you. The
- only way to die with these is to fall down a hole.
-
- Blue cloak - Enemies shrivel up and die upon your contact with
- them when you are wearing this cloak.
-
-
- A FEW QUICK HINTS
- =================
-
- * Save the game often! Then, when you get zapped, you can easily load it
- back and continue from where you were previously.
-
- * Avoid the FANS. They quickly eat away at your life if you stand in them.
-
- * Don't walk into the holes, especially the moving holes with the red eyes.
-
- * The 8-Balls are virtually impossible to shoot down. Your best bet for
- destroying them is to lead them into holes.
-
- * Frozen Ghosts - There are only two ways to destroy these beasts. One is by
- a hole, and the other - well you can figure it out.
-
- * Walking holes (holes with eyes in them) - Bullets pass right over them. The
- only way to destroy these critters is by leading them into a permanent hole.
- (In other words, the only way to destroy a hole is to have the hole fall
- down a hole)
-
- * Zorko - Repels heat-seekers and shoots fireballs almost constantly.
-
- * Other bosses - The final challenge! Nobody knows who they are or what they
- look like. All that we know is that to succeed in your mission, they must
- be destroyed. They are the bosses of levels 20 and 30.
-
- Credits
- =======
-
- Programming..........Ken Silverman
- Level Design.........Ken & Andy Cotter
- Artwork..............Future Crew, Ken, and Andy Cotter
- Music................Ken
- "Voice of Sparky"....Mark Rein
-
-
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- Thank you for playing! The crews at Epic MegaGames, Future Crew, and the
- Silvermans all hope you enjoy Ken's Labyrinth.
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