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!Aargh!Rpc/!Help
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| Filename: | !Aargh!Rpc/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0704 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
This game was originally programmed on an A3000, in BASIC. It had a rather
impressive amount of flicker.
This version will run on a RiscPC (but not well on an Archimedes)
It was converted by Peter Smith and Tony Haines
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Said about the original version:
Aargh is aptly named. ... A clever, complicated and infuriatingly addictive
way to spend several hours.
(Acorn Computing)
The title of this game is unusually apt. After playing it for half an hour
you will find yourself screaming Aargh! in frustration at this incredibly
addictive game. ... It looks naff but plays superbly.
(Archimedes World)
This game has five levels.
(Five levels of imaginative full-screen arcade action)
The object is to guide a little blob along passages and through rooms without
touching ANYTHING. Any contact will make your blob explode (dramatically).
Fortunately however, you have somehow come across an infinite supply of
the things.
The catch is that you have to start the screen again.
Your blob is indicated at the start of each level by a ' You Are Here ' sign
We can be contacted by E-Mail at
A.S.Haines@davav.demon.co.uk (Tony)
and
polaris@ursaminr.demon.co.uk (Peter)
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