Spitting Image: The Computer Game
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"Terrific conversion of the T.V. series... wild fun and hilarious action!"

SAVE THE WORLD!

Within the next seven years a world war will take place. A war so great that
even the Swiss will get involved this time. A war so terrible that Italians
have already surrendered. One leader will emerge from this war to rule the
world.

It is your task to stop this leader and SAVE THE WORLD.


PLAYING SPITTING IMAGE

1. First Bits

After the game has loaded there is a brief introduction before it gets down
to the business of presenting the player with the humungous task of saving
the world. Press fire if you want to skip the introduction.


2. Map Bits

Next comes the map screen which is central to the quest of destroying the
credibility of the world leader. Using the joystick, select the leader you
would like to rule even less than all the other leaders you wouldn't like to
lead either. This will be the leader you are about to beat up. Next choose
the leader who you would like to do the beating up. This will be the leader
you will control.

From there you will be flown instantly to the home territory of the target
leader. To comply with the new 1992 EEC regulations, there will be no duty
free goods during the instant flight.


3. Ouch Bits

To defeat your opponent you must win a 'best of five' series of fights. If
you lose then you are a humiliating failure. The kid down the street did
better than you and he's only been playing computer games a week and
probably his mum could even beat your score and get to write her name above
yours which would be really embarrasing if your friend saw it and you'd
have to keep making excuses if they came round to your house and wanted to
play the game because you'd have to say something like "Oh it's broken" and
they'd say "it doesn't look very broken to me" and switch it on and see
your friend's mum's name before yours and you'd have to pretend it was a
joke but they wouldn't believe you and they'd go round telling everyone what
a lousy score you got and your parents would be so ashamed they'd pretend
to be dead just to get you put in an orphanage where they wouldn't have to
see you. And if you take our advice, then you'd throw the game away and
pretend you'd never played it.


4. Incredible Bits

If however you win the series then the target leader will have lost all
credibility. You will then be sped back to the map screen where a skull will
be sitting in place of the leader you have just beaten. From there you must
once again pick two more leaders, and prividing you keep winning then the
show goes on! You may be wondering what happens when you are left with one
leader. Well we are not going to tell you. On some cassette version of the
game, you may be asked to load world leaders before the fight starts. Follow
the on screen prompts.


TWO PLAYER GAME

If you wish to have a bash with a friend then move the pointer on the map
screen to the '2' icon and press fire.You  can then choose which leaders
each will use. The fight works as the usual best of five - how ever you
cannot save the world.


FIGHTING

This is the most confusing bit. Ronnie got completely lost here and even
Maggie took 5 seconds to understand it.


JOYSTICK MOVES

NO FIRE BUTTON PRESSED

                    JUMP UP
JUMP AND MOVE BACK     |     JUMP AND MOVE FORWARD
                   \   |   /
                     \ | /
          BACK OFF ----+---- MOVE FORWARD
                       |
                       |
                      DUCK

FIRE BUTTON PRESSED CONTINUOUSLY

                  HIT AT HEAD
                       |
      SPECIAL MOVE ----+---- HIT AT BODY
                       |
                  HIT AT FEEET

All this assumes your chosen leader is facing to the left. If he/she is
facing to the right, the moves are mirrored so, "Hit to Head" stays the
same, but "Hit at Body" goes to the left. Got it? Told you it would be
confusing, but it's not that difficult to master.


SPECIAL MOVES

Each leader has their own special move. No clues here - it's up to you to
find out.


KEYBOARD

The Spectrum version can be played with the keyboard instead of the
joystick.

Just folow the instructions on screen.


SIDEKICK

Sometimes it gets too much fighting out there on their own, so each leader
has a sidekick to help out. During any fight, press Space Bar and see who
appears. They can come back time after time...


(C) Spitting Image Production Ltd 1988.
Published by Domark Ltd.

(Transcribed by Robin Stuart)