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SPY vs SPY
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WRITTEN BY: ??????
UPLOADED BY: THE BLIND THIEF
SIMULVISION utilizes a revolutionary split-screen display depicting
both players activities simultaneously! Even while playing alone
against the computer, you get to see what the other wise-SPY is up
to.
SIMULPLAY lets both players play... you guessed it! Simultaneously.
No more need to wait your turn as you travel throughout a selectable,
yet randomly generated maze of interconnection rooms. While setting
and defusing booby-traps, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, searching
for the Top Secret briefcase (guess its not secret anymore) and
looking for the only way out, you must collect your passport, secret
plans, money, and a key in order to escape from the foreign embassy
before your plane take off without you. Like alfred E. Neuman says,
"If at first you don't succeed at first... SPY, SPY again."
GAME OPTIONS:
When SPY vs SPY has finished loading into your computer, you will be
presented with OPTION screen.
Located inside the top room you will be able to select and modify the
following options:
1. Number of players
2. Difficulty level
3. 'Intelligence Quotient' of the computer (one player version only)
4. Airport exit revealed or until the end.
STARTING:
With your joystick or appropriate keys, move your cursor, up and down,
to any of the options. By moving the joystick right or left you can
select one or two player mode, difficulty level, and I.Q. of the
computer (only available in one player mode.)
CONTROLS
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MOVEMENT:
The rooms that you are in are three dimensional. Pushing the JOYSTICK
forward will move you towards the rear of the room. Pulling the
JOYSTICK right or left will move you right or left. If you move from
room to room, you will notice that a Movement Status Indicator bar
(located below your room) is scrolling from right to left and being
updated with each new room you have entered. These symbols can show
you how to go back to where you've come from. For examples, if you
move one room to the right and two rooms back, you will see, reading
from right to left, two "down" arrows and one "left" arrow. To find
your way back, follow the arrows reading from left to right, deleting
each arrow until you return to the room in which you started. See
"Bread Crumbs"
OBJECT MANIPULATION:
First, move within range of any object (you will hear a short tone and
see a flash). Then press the Joysrick button. Any object within a
room can be opened or lifted and may reveal one of the hidden items
you are looking for. If you're not so lucky, it will activate a BOOBY
TRAP, blowing you to smithereens....
OPENING DOORS:
Again, move within range of any closed door. Press the JOYSTICK
button and the door will open.
KEYS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS
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K
Move left
L
Move right
A
Move back or up
Z
Move forward or down
Q
Access trapulator
S
Toggle music on/off
SPACE
Press to open or close a door To pick up or drop an object Select or
activate a booby trap Start game Press once to stop your man, again to
drop an object.
ESC
Pause game play
CTRL-R
Return to option screen
In Hand-to-Hand combat, use the K, L, A, and Z Keys to move the arm
with the club: in, out, up, or down, while depressing the CONTROL
Key.
GAME ELEMENTS
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SIMULVISION:
The top half monitors the actions of the White Spy, the bottom half
depicts the Black Spy (either player 2 or the computer). The
activities of both Spies are revealed to both players in the rooms
shown on the left side of the screen. The right side is reserved for
the Trapulator and its six icons.
SIMULPLAY:
With the clock running at all times, we didn't think it was fair to
make players wait to take turns. So, voila! Simulplay. Since both
Spies' activities take place out in the open, the challenge becomes
watching and remembering what the other Spy does while you go about
your business. Simulplay allows players to engage in club-to-club
combat, place booby-traps, chase each other and generally get in the
way.
HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT:
The combat mode exists only when both spies are in the same room.
SIMULVISION ends, and the spy that entered the common room appears on
the same screen as the Spy that was already there. Both spies have
the options of attacking, leaving, or avoiding the other Spy.
In the combat mode, spies cannont search objects, or use the
Trapulator (no map or traps). Doors, however, still work, and so do
any traps that might be connected with them. If spies are not withing
range of any object when pushing the JOYSTICK BUTTON, they wield their
clubs with which they can hit the other Spy on the head or jab him in
the stomach. To smash him on the head, the button is held down while
the JOYSTICK is moved from the Up position to the Down position (swing
the club downward). To jab, move the JOYSTICK from left to right (or
right to left, depending on which way the Spy is facing). When the
JOYSTICK BUTTON is first pushed down, the Spy will automatically face
his opponent, regardless of which way he was facing or moving. To
move your Spy during combat, release the button ad move as normal.
Hitting the other spy weakens him, and about 7 solid blows are needed
to "Kill" him. However, Spies will recover strength over a period of
time.
If a Spy is carrying anything when he enters a common room, the object
is lost or hidden in the common room, depending on the type of
object. Traps and remedies are lost, while inventory items and the
briefcase are hidden somewhere in the room. The winner of the combat
sequence can search the object out, and either regain or gain
possesion.
NOTE: At the beginning of each new game, both Spies will start out in
the same room only a few steps from each other. Soooo, don't become
the victim of SAP-otage... keep your guard up.
TIME:
Both players start out with equal time to travel the maze, collect
required objects, search for the briefcase and exit the embassy before
their plane takes off. However, there are several time penalties.
You lose time when you set a booby-trap, When setting a trap, you will
hear several beeps. This will tell you that the trap was properly set
and it reminds you to watch your trapulator, which will be deducting
the appropriate time. However, if you are the victim of a booby-trap
or the loser in a hand-to-hand combat the clock will continue to count
down even though you are 'unconscious'. These losses of time can
never be regained. When time is about to run out the red button on
top of the TRAPULATOR will flash and sound it's warning. Both players
can never run out of time at the same time. Therefore, one player
will outlive the other. The surviving player will continue his search
for the briefcase required objects and the exit. If you are playing
against the computer and the computer has time remaining, you can
abort the mission by typing CTRL-R. Even after your spy's demise, the
traps he has set remain. The game is by no means over just because
one player's time has run out. To stop the game or pause, press the
ESC key.
BOOBY TRAPS:
As players move through the maze of rooms, they may select any of the
five booby-traps. The booby-trap arsenal contains: Bombs, Springs,
Buckets of Water, Guns with Strings tied to the Trigger and Time
Bombs. The Time Bomb needn't be hidden. In fact, it is activated
immediately and is the only booby-trap that cannot be carried or
neutralized! The Gun with a string and the bucket of water can only
be attached to a closed door. All other traps may be placed behind or
in anything found in any room.
Spies can carry traps in and out of rooms, placing them where they
wish when they are ready. Booby-traps are depicted in black while the
remedies are shown in color.
TO PLACE AND SET A TRAP:
1. Press the JOYSTICK button... TWICE! You have just accessed the
TRAPULATOR. Observe the large arrow.
2. Move the large arrow about the Trapulator using the JOYSTICK or
KEYBOARD arrows.
3. Position the arrow of the booby-trap of your choice.
4. Press the JOYSTICK or if you are using the keyboard, the
SPACEBAR. The booby-trap is now held by your spy.
5. Position the Spy in front of the hiding place you have selected.
6. Watch for a brief flash in your Spy's room. This flash indicates
the Spy is properly positioned.
7. Press the JOYSTICK/SPACEBAR. The booby-trap will disappear* and
you will hear the short 'beeps'. These indicate that the trap has
been set AND that time is being deducted from the time remaining
before your flight leaves.