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Information - Insecticide

GenreShoot'em Up! - MiscellaneousYear
Language[unknown]Publisher[no publisher]
ControlsJoystickDistributor-
Players1Developer[n/a]
ResolutionLowLicensed from-
Programmer(s)

Hague, Peter

CountryUnited Kingdom
Graphic Artist(s)

Hague, Peter

SoftwareEnglish
Game design

Hague, Peter

Box / InstructionsEnglish
Musician(s)

[unknown]

LicensePD / Freeware / Shareware
Sound FX

Hague, Peter

Serial
Cover Artist(s)ST TypeST, STe / 0.5MB
MIDIVersion
Dumpdownload atari Insecticide Download / MSANumber of Disks1 / Double-Sided
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Instructions - Insecticide

SKIP THIS FORM FOR THE MOMENT AND 
READ ON:
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I enclose a payment of five pounds 
because I like Insecticide. Please 
send me LORD OF THE ISLE free.

NAME................................
ADDRESS.............................
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MEMORY(tick): 1 Meg(+)... 1/2 Meg...
DRIVE(TICK): 1 Meg..... 1/2 Meg.....

WHY NAIROBI? The solution is:
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INSECTICIDE
by Peter Hague

Have you ever wondered what insects 
do in the winter when there's snow 
on the ground? Well, now it can be 
revealed....they play Insecticide. 
This is an up to date version of 
snowball fights using modest space 
technology, big-band sounds, Latin 
rhythms and a voice that shouts 
"Nairobi!" every time the Speed Moth 
gets hit. In short, all the things 
you need for a good time. But the 
real good news is that now you can 
play along with them and also enter 
a competition...

FIRST A FEW HINTS:

In this game you control a ladybird 
and apart from the obvious vertical 
and horizontal joystick movements to 
get it up off it's backside, you can 
coax it to fly by using the diagonal 
settings. This is quite handy in an 
emergency as it enables you to pass 
unassailably over the hoards when 
cornered.

The object of the game is simple: 
Just amass as many points as you can 
on your way to the end, which is 
thrust upon you, like it or not, 
when you have completed level 50. To 
win points just blast everything in 
sight with your Spit laser.

IMPORTANT MOMENTS BEFOREHAND:

1. Apart from hearing someone shout 
"Nairobi!" when you hit the Speed 
Moth, it will soon become apparent 
that your ladybird can run faster 
thereafter. It will remain quicker 
for the rest of the level, so best 
hit it early to make full use of it 
rather than save it until last like 
a friend of mine does.

2. The main problem you have is 
being attacked by unfriendly insects 
which try to mob your ladybird and 
get it's autograph, or so they say. 
Unfortunately, these creatures are 
made of anti-matter and since your 
ladybird is definitely positive in 
both attitude and constitution, it 
will fragment on impact (This is 
embarrassing in the extreme - 
especially at job interviews.)

WARNING: After level 4 the enemy 
insects tend to shoot back so 
perhaps they were lying about 
wanting autographs after all? If hit 
about eight times your ladybird will 
be on its back and inconvenienced 
for a few moments.

3. As well as the insects that chase 
you there are also a variable number 
of static insects just hanging about 
and waiting for spring to arrive. 
These are made of anti-matter too so 
go around them or clobber them with 
your Spit Laser for extra points.

4. Occasionally, on hitting a 
resting insect you will trigger a 
Bonus Flower and for a moment Spring 
is in the air. This flower will then 
start to idle it's way off the 
screen to visit the dole office. 
Blast it at once to gain the Bonus. 
Bonuses, like all general scores, 
increase as the game goes on. (A 
very creative friend of mine 
suggested it might be more original 
to decrease them, but I poked him in 
the eye and told him to shut up.)

5. Languishing among the static 
insects you will often notice an odd 
one out. This is known as the 
bouncer. Hit it and you will soon 
fire a bouncing egg which flys 
around the screen. Since this is 
made of your very own flesh and 
blood (positive matter) it seriously 
upsets the static insects, gaining 
you points, and actually kills the 
moving blighters - serves 'em right.

6. Every eigth level the parents 
arrive - well one does, anyway. It 
takes the not unusual form of a vile 
and enormous beast and gives you a 
serious telling off for blasting the 
wee kids - of course, you've seen 
parents like this before so it's no 
sweat. Get it off your back by 
hitting it more times than it hits 
you. Failing that, agree to a 
reduction in pocket money. If you do 
kill it you get extra points, which 
is more than most parents give you. 
(Between you and me, these giant 
insects are cowards anyway as they 
never come down the screen very 
far).

7. On later levels be careful when 
shooting the last insect as you may 
get a surprise. Also, there are 
occasional errant insects which zig-
zag across the snow going nowhere. 
If they hit you, however, you will 
be going nowhere either, so watch 
out for them.

8. To stop players cleaning up when 
they have decimated their assailants 
to a panic stricken rabble a time-
out system operates occasionally 
after about level 9. This is not an 
magazine for swatting insects with, 
but a cut off point, which, after 
tens seconds or so, considers you've 
won the level and moves you on. If 
you ignore it, then it's back to the 
previous level and shame on you!

9. On some levels the insects you 
shoot play tricks on you. 
Occasionally they turn into flowers. 
This is an attempt to fool you into 
thinking Spring has arrived and so 
lower your concentration - don't 
believe them - it's a diversion. 
Another diversion is when they turn 
into what appear to be more static 
insects. These are just time wasting 
dummies. You can't shoot them for 
points.

10. On other levels the insects do 
not explode but are harmlessly boxed 
and frozen into the ice.

11. Should you have an appropriate 
amount of points when you have lost 
all your lives you will be thrust 
onto the high score table where you 
will be able to type in your chosen 
alias, dance a Samba and then save 
the score table to disk, thus 
enabling you to prove your scores 
later and attempt to beat them.

12. WHY YOU CAN'T SCORE MILLIONS:
I personally do not believe in 
labouring oneself with huge figures 
that are hard to visualise. Even the 
government have shown us time and 
time again how easy they are to 
accumulate but how difficult they 
are to deal with. I think if you 
score anything up to ten in a game, 
then that's satisfaction enough.

PAUSE: If any bast...I mean 
important client phones you while 
you are mid-game, or the attractive 
girl next door comes round to borrow 
a cup of sugar. You can pause the 
action by pressing the space bar. 
Press it again to continue play.

Well, that's all there is to it 
really. The rest is supposed to be 
fun - but then again, that's what 
they said about the 1960's, 
conveniently forgetting about the 
Vietnam war and the Cuban missile 
crisis.

If you like this game, or even the 
doc file, please send five pounds 
sterling to the address below. On 
receipt of this I will send you a 
free game that is packed with great 
graphics and sampled sounds called 
LORD OF THE ISLE. Remember to tell 
me if you have more than half a 
megabyte of memory though because 
there are two versions. They are not 
much different but there is less 
disk accessing with the one meg 
version. If you have a 520 but have 
a one megabyte disk drive and can 
take double sided disks, tell me and 
I'll send you some other bits too - 
I believe they call these 'goodies', 
although I thought that was a comedy 
show from the early seventies? 
Still, if he fits onto the disk I 
may send you Bill Oddie, who knows?

* NB. IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE THE UK, 
PLEASE ADD RETURN POSTAGE. (and 
please feel free to question me on 
who Bill Oddie is).

Please send your remittance to:

Peter Hague
Concept Design Art Direction
32, Chancet Wood Drive
Meadowhead
Sheffield S8 7TR, England

USE THE COUPON AT THE BEGINNING OF 
THIS FILE IF YOU HAVE EITHER A 
PRINTER OR A REALLY GOOD PAIR OF 
SCISSORS. (Don't try that at home). 
Otherwise just send me a quick note 
stating your address and a mention 
of how much you love Insecticide.

The program and artwork on this disk 
are the copyright of PETER HAGUE 
1992 but please feel free to copy it 
and distribute it to your friends. 
If you have flu, sneeze on it and 
send it to your enemies too. That's 
the friendliest computer virus 
you'll ever give them. But whatever 
you do, please make sure this 
document file goes with it.

COMPETITION TIME!

WHY NAIROBI? That's the question on 
everyone's lips, I know, but there 
is a completely logical reason for 
it and if the answer is on anyone's 
lips they can enter a competition to 
win twenty-five pounds! Yes, twenty-
five pounds! (repeat in a horrible 
furniture warehouse advertisement 
voice).

RULES:

The first person to send in their 
five pounds registration fee and 
tell me the correct solution to why 
they hear the call: "Nairobi!" when 
they shoot the Speed Moth will be 
sent a cheque for twenty-five pounds 
and their own payment returned. The 
solution must, of course, agree with 
my own, otherwise their would be 
chaos, wouldn't there?

When someone has guessed the correct 
solution (and it will be a guess) I 
will see if I can get the various ST 
magazines to print a small mention 
in the PD columns (Please Mr Editor, 
sir!). I will also contact the PD 
libraries and let them know and 
mention it on forthcoming software 
releases of my own - don't worry, I 
won't let you miss it.

N.B. I'm afraid no correspondence 
whatsoever can be entered into on 
the subject though.

Members of my close family, living 
or dead, may not enter this 
competition. Neither can my friends 
(not that I have any, but it sounds 
good doesn't it?)

CLOSING DATE: In case no one comes 
up with the correct solution I think 
we'll call it a day on the 6th June 
1993 - and why not? If it's good 
enough for Churchill it's good 
enough for me.

FREEPLAY!:

DEREK: "So, what's this LORD OF THE 
ISLE game all about then, Ron?"

RON: "Well, it's a board-like 
strategy game, actually, with great 
graphics and sampled sound."

DEREK: "Bit like LUDO then, eh?"

RON: "No, not really."

DEREK (anxiously): "What then, tell 
me at once."

RON: "Well, you choose an old sea 
captain to control and then you have 
to do battle against this insane 
chappie who's into voodoo and thinks 
he owns the island you're on."

DEREK: "Who? John Major?"

RON: "Nah! He's not insane - that's 
his problem. It's a chap named 
Quimby you've got to worry about."

DEREK: "Does he own it?"

RON: "He does if you don't win. 
Anyway, you thrown your dice and 
cast spells and summon things to 
help you. Meanwhile, you try to get 
a bottle to float round the island 
before his does."

DEREK: "Sounds fun!"

RON: "It is. I bought two copies!"

DEREK: "I thought is was FREE when 
you paid for insecticide?"

RON (looking embarrassed) "Er...it 
is."


NEWS!

If you are interested in adventure 
games, I have recently put a 
humourous text and graphic adventure 
into the PD too. It's called THE 
OBSCURE NATURALIST. The main object 
of the game is to become a famous 
naturalist by getting to an island 
in the middle of a lake and 
photographing some rare Baby Herons. 
This program is very unusual, very 
original and very massive - there's 
not a troll or a dwarf in sight, but 
it has a certain magic all of it's 
own. It is divided into two parts, 
the second part being available via 
registration complete with a four 
page hints and tips sheet. Having 
said that, part one is bigger than 
most full adventure games anyway and 
you can play that for free - wow! If 
you feel really adventurous you can 
get the full game, plus the tips 
sheet direct from me for five 
pounds.

WHAT THE MAGAZINES SAID ABOUT THE 
OBSCURE NATURALIST:

"It's well-crafted and free from the 
obvious grammatical and spelling 
errors - the writing is fairly rich 
too, and liberally sprinkled with 
dry humour - appealing graphics - 
worth a ramble."

                   ST FORMAT
                   (issue 39)

"Excellent Graphics and some very 
well-written text."

                   ATARI ST REVIEW
                   (issue 5)

MORE NEWS!!!

If you are interested in astronomy 
(and I know you all are) you might 
like to purchase another program 
from me called THE NORTHERN AND 
EQUATORIAL STAR ATLAS. This details 
the forty-three constellations that 
make up the northern and equatorial 
sky and contains info for all levels 
of amateur astronomy. Demos for 1040 
and 520 machines are in the public 
domain now but please note that the 
full program only runs on a minimum 
of 1040K and in medium res. You can 
obtain the full program from me for 
only five pounds. But if you tell me 
you have a Double-sided drive when 
paying for Insecticide I will 
include the 520 demo version along 
with Lord of the ISLE.

WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THE NORTHERN 
AND EQUATORIAL STAR ATLAS

"A must for the budding astronomer 
and is a great learning aid in 
recognising the constellations as 
well as gaining an insight into 
their history and composition."

               ATARI ST USER
               (issue 81)





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