PROOF OF DESTRUCTION ==================== P.O.D has no pretentious storyline and no planets to be saved! It is quite simply the most exciting and addictive shoot-em-up EVER! Each level is superbly balanced for playability and challenging action. It may be too much for you. JOYSTICK OR KEYBOARD OPTIONS. CONVERTED BY ICON DESIGN. THE GAME P.O.D. has no pretentious storyline and no mega-reality to justify its existence. It is simply an exciting and addictive shoot-em-up! There are 25 levels to survive, each more difficult than the last and all superbly balanced for playability and action. You play across an interconnecting grid of wire, along which your P.O.D. may be moved. The aliens arrive (usually) from the top and descend rapidly in orderly fashion, intent on causing P.O.D. actual physical pain. Blowing them away causes an explosion, which will damage the grid. Neither you nor the bad guys can move over the damage till it heals - a few seconds. It is all too easy therefore to get yourself trapped in a corner with nowhere to go and the sky raining aliens! If the Bad Guys hit a break, they fall down the grid towards you and will cheerfully take you out on their way down the screen. Every fourth level is a bonus screen or high scoring level which gives you the chance to increase your score. Each level is timed, as shown on the screen and to win through all you need to do is stay in one piece till the time runs out. Should you succeed a bonus is awarded and an extra life is given, up to a maximum. You will need them all. In the unlikely event of you achieving a good score, the high score table awaits to record the event To put your name in rack up the tetters using the joystick and fire button, then move to the far right to rubout or enter and you have finished. Pressing fire and up simultaneously moves you back to the game. CONTROLS Press Symbol shift to start play 1 for one player game 2 for two player game or 3 to choose controls Press space to cycle between options 1 to select player one options 2 to select player two options 3 to return to main menu ; |, STRATEGY There is none! Keep moving and KEEP FIRING. Blowing up aliens attracts fire in response and on the higher levels they will “hunt” you across the grid. On some levels (you’ll soon see which) it is more sensible to concentrate on staying alive ratherthan trying to inflict mass deati i on the Bad Guys. Going into the corners of the screen is not a smart move, and staying there more than a second is definitely dumb. LOADING INSTRUCTIONS Type LOAD “” and press ENTER. A member of the Mastertronic Group of Companies. The program code, graphic representation and artwork are the copyright of Mastertronic and may not be reproduced, stored, hired or broadcast In any form whatsoever without the written permission of Mastertronic. All rights reserved. © Mastertronic Limited 1968 Made fo Great Britain Design: Word & Pictures Ltd., London