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BUGGER!
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A Game by Reservoir Gods
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Francis the frog crouched nervously on the verge on the motorway. His two
bulging eyes absorbed the flying hunks of metal that rushed along the concrete
tracks. Francis wondered why humans hadn't yet learned how to use their legs.
A gap in the traffic briefly appeared. Francis braced himself, about to make a
lunge across the lanes but at the last moment a roar of a huge coca-cola van
kept him firmly rooted to the grass.
Some other frogs couldn't understand Francis's eagerness to cross the grey
death channel, but his reasons were simple. It was said that the grass was
always greener on the other side and he fancied a good smoke. He was also
annoyed that chickens also got all the publicity about road crossing and he was
sure that frogs were far more adept at it.
The traffic growled angrily. Although Chris Rea had called the M25 'The Road To
Hell' Francis wasn't convinced that it stopped at Swindon. Automobiles had all
sorts of nasty connotations - there was the insipid 'funk-jam' of Steve
Winwood's "Traffic". Nigel Mansell. Jeremy Clarkson. Francis wondered if you
had to be terminally stupid to get a driving licence.
It was time to become a toad-hog. Francis tensed the little froggy muscles in
his powerful legs. Taking one reassuring gasp of fresh air he flexed his legs
and began bounding towards the road. The first couple of lanes were clear.
Ahead of Francis was a slow moving ambulance. 'Plenty of time' he reasoned and
dashed in front of it just as the driver slammed his foot on the accelerator.
As Francis's froggy shell met with the giant tyre of destiny a single word
formed in his frustrated mind. "Bugger!"
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MAIN MENU
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On loading BUGGER! you are presented with the main menu.
This can be controlled with cursor keys and space of jaguar powerpads.
If you want to speed up the text display, hold down the ALT key.
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CONTROL MENU
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Here you set the control type for each of six frogs.
Supported control methods are:
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| UP | DOWN |
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|Keyz1 | Cursor Up | Cursor Down |
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|Keyz2 | Control | Shift |
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|Pad A | Pad Up | Pad Down |
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|Pad B | Pad Up | Pad Down |
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|Joy 1 | Stick Up | Stick Down |
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|Joy 2 | Stick Up | Stick Down |
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|Mouse | Right Button | Left Button |
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|Computer | ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT! |
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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The complex neural network of a frog's brain has been faithfully reproduced on
your Faclon030! Yes, Reservoir Gods lesser known Genetic Research offshoot have
come up with a perfect frog thinking algorithm!
If you set a frog to computer controlled will give him all the characteristics
of a real frog. He basically dashes madly across the road with no idea of car
motion, traffic flow etc. Chillingly accurate.
Computer frogs may be simple but they are still bloody difficult to beat,
especially on the easy setting.
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GAME MENU
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Here you can control various aspects of BUGGER!
o PLAYERS
One to Six players!
o TIME
Off - Game ends on LIVES or TARGET score
Short - A quick bugger
Medium - A relaxing bugger
Long - A long hard bugger
o LIVES
Infinite - Game ends on TIME or TARGET score.
One - Be very careful!
Three - Be careful!
Nine - Cat Mode
Thirty - That's a lot of frogs!
o LEVEL
Easy - Super Fast frogs!
Medium - Frog-standard speed.
Slow - Senior Toad speed.
o TARGET
Set a target score.
The first frogs to reach this score is the winner!
o OVERSCAN
Horizontally extends the screen into C i n e m a s c o p E
As seen in GODLENES!
This mode is RGB only.
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SOUND MENU
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o SOUND
If you turn this off then the full DSP Tracker system will be disabled.
If you are experiencing slowdown (e.g. on a VGA monitor in six player mode)
then switching the music off is recommended.
o MUSIC VOLUME
Sets the volume of the music.
The default setting is low so the samples can be heard clearly.
If you are in a Digital Hardcore mood, pump the music up to 'Booming'.
o FX VOLUME
Sets the volume of the sound FX.
The default setting is 'Booming' so they can heard over the music.
If you wish you can turn the FX off and just enjoy the music.
o SPEAKER
VGA owners may wish to try and listen to the sound through the internal
speaker.
Others and those with ears should make sure the speaker is off.
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PLAYING BUGGER
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Get your little froggy fella to the other side of the road and don't get
squished! It's as simple as Gazza!
Directly opposite you in a large font is your current score.
If playing in lives mode, then your lives will be displayed in a smaller font
at your starting position.
As with many RG games, bugger can be played in a number of ways:
o AGAINST THE CLOCK
If the TIME setting in the game menu is not off, you have to score as much
as possible before the time runs out.
When the clock is down to the last 15 seconds the score will begin flashing
so now is the time to recklessly dash for some bonus points!
o LIVES
If lives are set to anything other than infinite than your frog can only be
run over a set number of times.
In this mode you have to be cautious especially if lives are low.
The game ends when all frogs have lost all their lives.
o TARGET SCORE
If you set a target score in the game menu then the first frog to reach this
score will be the winner!
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REQUIREMENTS
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o Atari/JTS/Hasbro Falcon030
o TV/RGB/VGA Monitor
o Keyboard or Mouse or Jaguar Powerpad
o Ability to avoid traffic
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CREDITS
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Code & Design.......MrPink
Graphics............sh3
Music...............sh3 [ Conversion of Patric C's "You're A Hero" ]
DSP Replay..........Tat
Stayed At Home......MSG
Additional Design...Setok
Additional Design...Arnel
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PACKAGES USED
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o Pure C
o Devpac
o GodPaint
o Graoumf Tracker
o Pro Tracker
o Pack-Ice!
o PackCheck
o MakeLink
o ProText
o ST-Zip
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CONTACT
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mrpink_rg@hotmail.com
sh3_rg@zetnet.co.uk
msg_rg@hotmail.com
ripley_rg@hotmail.com
http://www.acs.bolton.ac.uk/~msg1css/maison.htm
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/zmoe3/three.htm
Leon O'Reilly. Cwm Isaf. Abermule. Montgomery. Welspool. Powys. SY15 6JL
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[C] 1998 Reservoir Gods
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