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- KAMIKAZE DUCK
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- Program by Buck Childress
- Text by Fender Tucker
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- [NOTE:] A joystick plugged into Port
- #2 is required for this game. Also,
- once you begin the game, the only way
- to exit is to press RUN/STOP RESTORE.
- To get back to LOADSTAR, LOAD"HELLO
- CONNECT",8 and press RETURN.
-
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- Ducks dive from fog. If they
- don't hit a lily pad, they die. If
- they do, they become adult ducks and
- fly away. You have a boat with a net
- made of lily pad stuff so you can help
- them become adults by making sure that
- they hit the net before the water.
-
- If you ignore such serious
- ethical considerations as licensing,
- ecological damage caused by motor
- boats, and payoffs to the Sierra
- Club, you can have a great time at
- the lake. If only your boat were
- easier to control....
-
- You have a 10-foot fiber-glass
- SpeedSport Trawler with a 500 hp
- Evinrude Destroyer outboard, so you
- have all the power you need.
-
- Unfortunately, all you have to
- steer with is a joystick. If you
- push the stick to the right, your
- craft heads to the right, but in
- order to move you must push the stick
- forward. To go left, push the stick
- to the left and then forward to move.
- To move backward, pull the stick
- back. To extend your lily pad net,
- push the fire button and the net jumps
- out of the front of your boat, or as
- some people say, the bow.
-
- If you catch the careening duck
- with your net, he will quickly mature
- and fly off, fodder for the hunters a
- lake or two away. If you miss, the
- duck will splash into the water and
- become fish food. Such is the luck of
- a duck.
-
- Each night there are fifty ducks
- in the fog. You can activate the
- net-extender sixty times a night so
- theoretically you can 'save' all
- fifty ducks. The number of ducks you
- save is shown at the top of the
- screen, along with the number that
- have kamikazed and the number of
- times you have used your net-
- extender. You can move onto the next
- night anytime you want by pressing any
- FUNCTION key. You can also pause the
- action by pressing the SHIFT or
- SHIFT-LOCK keys.
-
- The only way to call off the duck
- debacle is to press the RUN/STOP
- RESTORE combination. If you want to
- return to Lake Drake, enter SYS49152
- and press RETURN. To return to
- LOADSTAR, enter LOAD"HELLO CONNECT",8
- and then RUN.
-
- Don't forget the annual
- Duck-Lover's Banquet at the Peking
- Fowl Restaurant in Deming, New
- Mexico. See you at the races!
-
- FT
-
-
- [DAVE'S AFTERSHAVE:] Buck Childress
- was one of the names I recall from
- dozens of programs in Ahoy, Commodore,
- and other paper magazines. The editors
- of these magazines had to remember the
- sorely mistreated fingers of their
- readership. Buck usually met the
- challenge of simple programming with a
- lot of panache.
-
- So here's to Buck and all the great
- pastimes of yesterday.
-
- DMM
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