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MINIT MAN DOCS
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THE OUTPOST
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MINIT MAN is a three-screened game in which you have to load and
launch 3 interplanetary missiles before the alien mother ship destroys
you. The missles you must use to destroy the mother ship are on the
other side of a gorge with a broken bridge. You have to fly to the
government warehouse on the right-hand screen, pick up trusses and
beams, one at a time, and fly them back to complete the bridge on the
left-hand screen. Meanwhile, you must protect the launch computer in
the command building in the center screen from the attacking alien
robots. Once you have built the bridge, the train automatically brings
a missle to the launching pad on the middle screen. You then land,
leave the 'copter, and proceed down the back-and-forth hallways of the
command building and reach the computer which then fires the missles.
You must launch all three missles in under 5 minutes in order to
complete the first level.
To build bridge: once you have a beam or truss picked up from
warehouse, fly to bridge, position it EXACTLY and press both fire
buttons at the same time.
To kill robots: robots fly down at center screen and enter command
building to get launch computer. When they are hit with 3 shots, they
turn into a land mine which kills you or damages a robot if it is
touched. Sometimes a robot will fly to destroy bridge instead of
computer, so you must try to protect both screes at the same time. The
minit man can fire lazer, jump mines, & duck shots.
To manuever helicopter: it faces in 5 directions, and it flys fastest
in the direction it is facing. To change directions, push button 1
while pointing joystick to desired direction. Fire lazer cannon with
button 0.
You lose when: the time on the clock runs out, all 5 minit men die, or
a robot gets to the launch computer.
If all this sounds tough, there are some advantages you do have. Your
copter flies faster than the robots, you can shoot through the windows
in the command building to kill robots easily, and if minit man dies
inside the building, he leaves a power pill which makes next minit man
faster and clogs robot's lazers.
Missellaneous: you can enter the command building from either the
center or right-hand screen. Also, watch out for robot lazer cannons
perched above the bridge on left screen and warehouse on right
screen.
This is a difficult game to master, if you can ever master it at all!