Whole New Ball Game by Pete Cooke 1988. Instructions typed-up July 2011 by Matty. Pete Cooke. What a wonder of modern technology he is and no mistake. There he sits in the wilds of Leicester dreaming up all these tres brill new games for you - the discerning punter. And Whole New Ball Game is no exception - it's another sure fire hit. And this is a CRASH original game, Pete has written it as a sequel to Brainstorm, a CRASH Smash game of yesteryear, and it's only available on this tape, so count yourselves lucky! Not only have you got Ball Game, the game itself, but Pete has included a screen designer so you can dream-up your own puzzles and there's a secret program hidden away... Where? Well, if you look in the bottom right-hand corner of the menu screen you'll see a small tree-like icon. Select that and you're into an FTGP - fractal tree generating program to you. Make your own trees! Create a forest! Evolution at your fingertips! Have a fiddle with it, it's jolly "interesting"! Anyway, the game itself is a puzzle arcade game and will be loved by anyone whose brain exceeds their brawn. All the instructions and information you could possibly want are onscreen, but here's a brief summary of the game... The object is to capture yellow energy pills by rolling a ball over them. The ball heads off around the screen under its own power and you can only control the ball's path by placing and removing gates to deflect its course by 90 degrees. Each screen must be cleared of energy pills before the time limit expires. Watch out for other objects called effectors which may speed up the ball, change its path or generally muck it about. The notion is very easy to grasp, but playing Ball Game is a different matter. You should be able to clear the first few screens on easy level, after just a few goes... but it gets harder! The screen designer is simple to use, and self-explanatory. If you want to try out your created level before saving it, just use the PUT command and stick it in the game as screen A and play the game. It's all incredibly wonderful! Or should that be wonderfully incredible...? COOKE IN THE POT ...from Crosse and Blackwell. That was just a cheap way to tell you about control methods, which go like this: Joysticks are Kempston, Sinclair or Protek and the default keys are: O left P right S up X down SPACE select Keys can be redefined using the Alter Keys option.