PSSST
Описание игры
Существует такой класс игр, которые при всей своей простоте и бесхитростности цепляют. Пусть и графика не ахти, и действие происходит на одном экране, и делать-то ничего особенного не надо — как правило это какие-то циклически повторяющиеся очень простые задачи, а игра все равно цепляет. К таким играм относились развлечения «Game & Watch» от Nintendo, а в России известные как игры «Веселый повар», «Ну, погоди!», «Тайны океана».
Вот и игра «PSSST» очень похожа на эти игры. В этой игре вам предстоит управлять маленьким садовым роботом, похожим на сову. Его предназначение — ухаживать за растущим цветком, защищая его от вредителей. В инвентаре робота — мухобойка и набор разных спреев, с помощью которых можно убивать червей, которые так и норовят присосаться к растению. Нужно подобрать для червей различных цветов нужного цвета спреи. Для ускорения роста цветка используются так же удобрения — мигающая прямоугольная пачка.
Если цветку ничего не мешает — он растет. Сначала ввысь, затем на стебле появляются листочки. Результатом же будет распустившийся большой цветок, напоминающий подсолнух.Если же вы зеваете и не выполняете своих обязанностей, то черви постепенно выпивают все жизненные соки цветка, и он увядает.
Удивительно, но в игре крайне неудобное управление — клавиши Q, W, E, R, T и Y. Можно управлять и с помощью кемпстон-джойстика (имитируется курсорными клавишами), но тогда игра, почему-то, очень сильно тормозит.
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PSSST!
PUBLISHER
Ultimate Play The Game (ACG)
AUTHORS
Chris and Tim Stamper
YEAR
1983
DESCRIPTION
Shoot'em and collect'em up.
INSTRUCTIONS:
GROWING INSTRUCTIONS
Plant these seeds in good soil, growth can be speeded up by
collecting all compost bags, keeping young shoots free from all
garden pests and by looking after the leaves, which collect
sunlight. Remember, the more leaves the plant has, the faster it
will grow. As the young shoots give off an exotic aroma, the
plant is especially prone to and will in fact attract hoards of
Interstellar Space Slugs, Scuttling Leaches and Menacing Midges.
Use of correct repellants will prevent all these attacks.
Please note: Only approximately 20% of all plants will blossom
and reveal Robbie's Ultimate dream.
Growing time approximately 2 to 5 minutes.
CONTROLS:
CONTROLLING YOUR ROBOT
Your Robot is fully controllable using either the keyboard or a
joystick.
KEYBOARD CONTROLS
LEFT Robot will move left by using the 'Q' key on the third row.
RIGHT Robot will move right by using the 'W' key on the third
row.
UP Robot will move up by using the 'E' key on the third row.
DOWN Robot will move down by using the 'R' key on the third row.
FIRE Robot will fire the various spray cans by using the 'T' key
on the third row.
PAUSE The game may be paused by depressing the CAP SHIFT key on
the first row.
JOYSTICK CONTROLS
PSSST can be controlled using KEMPSTON Competition Pro Joysticks,
please write for further details.
CHEATS:
SEQUELS/PREQUELS/ RELATED GAMES:
Pssst was released in mid to late 1983 along with Jetpac, Cookie,
and Transam.
INLAY CARD TEXT:
Robbie the robot, sits in his garden, fetching the odd bag of
compost to help his prize Thyrgodian Megga Chrisanthodil grow.
When suddenly, the whole garden is invaded by the most devilish,
destructive insects you could imagine. But Robbie is prepared!
Equipped with three spray cans of the latest insect repelling
drops, smoke and streamers, Robbie bravely fights to keep all of
the deadly garden pests at bay.
All he has to do is figure out which spray kills each insect
outright, as the wrong spray will only stun the momentarily. If
Robbie leaves his plant unnatended the insects will swarm all
over it, eat the leaves and the plant will wilt, shrivel back and
die.
Little vermin. Leave my plant alone, Oy! My plant's dying. No!
No! Nasty bugs sucking the life from my Thyrogodian Megga
Chrisanthodil, making her shrink, wilt and die. I'll soon put a
stop to their little game, quick Spray-O-This'll sort 'em out.
There! Take that, and that, Ha! Ha!
Mustn't die, mustn't die. It's got to flower, it must do. It said
on the packet, "Takes between two and five minutes to grow", it
can't be much longer, won't be long now.
Why! you little...Quickly, get the Super Space Slug Spray and
then the Leech Laser. Quick, quick. They breed so fast, can't
hold them back for long. Hurry! Hurry!..Arrggg...
FEATURES
Full 8 way movement.
Massive every hit explosions.
Lives left display.
High score display.
One and Two player games.
Pause button.
Fantastic sound effects.
Insect Stun.
Rapid Continious Fire.
Weapon Compartments.
Joystick control option.
Fully growing Chrisanthodil - plus growing leaves.
Arcade standard game.
Super game tunes.
Three different insect spray cans.
Compost bags.
Fly swatters.
Bonus point features.
Thousands of insects.
On screen scoring
Flowering Chrisanthodil
SCORE LINE
The Score Line displays:
One player and two player scores
One player and two player lives left
Highest score obtained.
Various game options are available including
Joystick/keyboard select and 1 or 2 player options, upon start
of game.
SCORES/REVIEWS:
SNAPSHOTS/IRL'S:
FACTS ABOUT THE GAME:
Pssst was among the first batch of games (others mentioned above)
to come from the (what was to be) legendary software house.
Whilst other software companies were busy writing arcade
conversions in very poor code and graphics. Ultimate were making
arcade quality (at the time) games with bright, bold colours,
great sound, and above all, GREAT GAMEPLAY.
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