REBEL Virgin A METHOD OF ESCAPE "ALERT! WORKER THX2240, PLEASE REPORT TO YOUR POST IMMEDIATELY. FAILURE TO ATTEND TO YOUR ROUTINE CROP SPRYING DUTIES WILL RESULT IN UNCONDITIONAL TERMINATION". For soya plantation worker THX2240 this was the last straw. Life in the state controlled agricultural bloc seemed like virtual imprisonment. Breaking into the armoury and stealing a one person mobile Crowd control Vehicle (CCV), she decided to make her bid for freedom. In the agricultural bloc, giant solar conductors are used to provide artificial sunlight for the crops during spells of bad weather. The solar beams are 'bounced' to their destination points by directable glass reflector stations. Obviously, if a beam were to be fired in the wrong direction, the results could be lethal. The agricultural bloc is split into separately enclosed compounds, each of them joined by sealed exit tunnels. Using the CCV, THX2240 will be able to turn the reflector stations so that they guide the solar beam into the exit tunnels, shattering their seals! In this way, there is just a slim chance that she could escape to freedom through the exit tunnel of the outermost compound and join the rebles and outcasts living outside the control of the state. THE SNAG All the compounds are heavily patrolled by police surveillance machines. Contact with any of these will mean immediate termination. The CCV (which resembles a small tank) is highly manoeuvrable and well armoured, so THX2240 will not be totally wothout protection. UNFORTUNATELY, ESCAPE CHANCES HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED AT 574 TO 1. The Object of the Game you must collect reflectors on each level while defending yourself from attack. Once you have explored the level you are on and found the sealed exit, you must strategically place and position the reflectors between the Solar Beam Generator and the exit. turn the solar beam on to blast your way through the exit to the next level. There are 10 levels to penetrate before you can finally escape and meet up with the resistance. Hints and Tips Avoid Patrol Squads at all costs. All surveillance machines patrol set routes, so with practice you will learn the safest paths. Good luck! Produced by Gang of Five. Programming: Linc Tomlin Graphics: Martin Wheeler All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work being produced are reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring lending, public performance and broadcasting of this cassette is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for errors, not liability for damage arising from its use. WARNING These programs are sold according to VIRGIN GAMES LTD'S terms of trade and conditions of sale. Copies of which are available on request. (p) 1987 VIRGIN GAMES LTD (c) 1987 VIRGIN GAMES LTD. 11.7.2081: Dear Diary on a disc: This will be my last entry in your files. I'm going to make an escape attempt tomorrow. I've been given the access codes to the armoury by a sympathetic friend in Weapons Research - he's due for termination shortly on account of his age (he's nearly 30). I just can't go on. The new plantation supervisor has been making life hell, as usual. We're all being re-conditioned to improve our soya production output. I keep thinking back to the day DAN2711 made a break for it. "See you on the other side", he said. Now I know what he meant and why he would even risk his life to get away. No one knows if he made it. But I've got to try and get out of here, to find him and the others who have gone. I'm so scared the surveillance police are on me. They searched my living unit two days ago. I know it's only routine, but I'm sure they suspect me. I've already been cautioned for not taking my tranq-u-pills. The thing is, that now I've been off them for a while, I realise just how much they sap my will to resist. At least I can think for myself now. even last night I felt so strange, so alive. I sat on the edge of the bed gasping for breath with water running from my eyes. i was shaking all over. i think it's a condition called crying or cringing or something like that. We have pills to stop it happening but I've stopped taking those as well. I've planned an escape route for tomorrow, though even using the quickest paths I'll have to break my way through all the sealed compounds. Some of these contain massive reservoirs, crossed by narrow strips of land, which could prove difficult for the CCV to manoeuvre on, even if I can get through the inevitable police surveillance machines. Perhaps it won't matter what happens. I'd rather face termination than stay here, a prisoner and slave. I've already suffered for half the standard lifespan and things get even worse as you get older, with doubled workloads and abolition of leisure time for the over twenties. As it is, I'm almost sixteen. Better close this file now, only a minute or two to go before controlled sleep mode is activated. If they find me out of my sleeping capsule, my escape attempt will be foiled before it has begun... Instructions To load type LOAD "" Press PLAY on your tape machine Controls SYMBOL SHIFT/SPACE = restart game ENTER = pause game JOYSTICK INTERFACES: Kempston, Interface II, Cursor FIRE = DROP/PICK UP/ROTATE REFLECTOR KEYBOARD CONTROLS: UP = 1 DOWN = A LEFT = I RIGHT = P BOTTOM ROW = DROP/PICK UP/ROTATE REFLECTOR The Police Surveillance Department is comprised of Patrol Squads, causing severe damage unless you avoid them. Reflectors Each level has a limited supply of solar reflectors that are placed in reflector stations. A reflector can be rotated within a station, or removed and transported to another station. Drive your tank under the station and use FIRE will turn it to reflect in a different direction, pick it up or drop it.