SANTA'S XMAS CAPER
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Yo, Ho, Ho, Ho.....
It’s Christmas Eve, and the snow is falling slowly to the ground outside. Santa Claus’s 
Christmas Pudding has been "spiked" by the mischievous pixies, so you must race through 
the night skies on Santa’s sleigh delivering all of the Christmas Presents before the 
children wake up!!


SPECTRUM LOADING INSTRUCTIONS 

Type LOAD"" and then press ENTER. Then PLAY the tape.


CHRISTMAS DINNER MENU

1. using keyboard -  pressing "1" allows you to select from the keyboard and joystick 
                     control options.
2. define the keys - allows you to alter the keys from those set by De-Fault.

Pressing any other key starts the game.

To try and save Christmas, you have taken Santa’s clothes, sleigh, and Rudolph the 
Rednosed Reindeer, to try and deliver all of the Christmas presents. In your efforts to 
fulfil your task, you must guide the sleigh through the following landscapes.

LAPLAND

Leave Santa’s hideout and fly over the freezing snow and ice in an attempt to get to the 
children’s houses all over the World. However, the naughty pixies are out to ensure that 
your plans to save Christmas will fail, and have gathered lots of spare presents to throw 
at you to stop your progress.

Collect all Santa’s Faces and Wine Glasses.

ATLANTIC OCEAN

The American Scientists are so daft that they think that Santa Claus does not exist. They 
have therefore set up radar stations all over the Atlantic Ocean to try and track down 
the person responsible for the illusion. These radars transmit waves that you must avoid, 
if the waves hit you they will think that Santa Claus is a fake.

Collect all Santa’s Faces and Wine Glasses.

PRESENT DELIVERING

At last!! This is what Christmas is all about - flying over the rooftops delivering 
presents on Christmas morning whilst the children are asleep in their beds. Avoiding 
chimneys, aerials, last year’s presents, pixies, etc., etc., this will test your Santa 
skills to the limit. All of the Santa’s Faces and Wine Glasses collected on the earlier 
levels can now be delivered as presents down the chimneys by pressing SPACE.

To help you get all of the flying presents out of the way of your sleigh, you can throw 
a mixture of presents from out of your own sack. A direct hit smashes the pixies’ 
presents to pieces.

However, the troublesome pixies have a master weapon.... They know how much Santa loves 
Plum Pudding, so they have made bombs that look like Santa’s favourite Christmas treat. 
A few presents have to be blasted at these bombs to get rid of them.

You only have six chances to keep Santa alive in the hearts of the little children. 
Failure will mean that the pixies will be free to cause trouble all year long, as they 
will no longer have to make Christmas presents for Santa.

You are Santa - you must make sure that the "little people’s" capers do not spoil 
Christmas for the rest of the World.


JOYSTICK CONTROLS 

                     UP
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              LEFT ---*--- RIGHT
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                    DOWN

FIRE.BLASTS A PRESENT FROM SANTA’S SACK

KEYBOARD DE-FAULT KEYS

                     v.UP
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            Z.LEFT ---*--- X.RIGHT
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                    B.DOWN

SPACE.BLASTS A PRESENT FROM SANTA’S SACK


Programming, Graphics, Music & FX: Ian Richards & John Cassells 

The program code, graphics, music and artwork of this game are the copyright of Zeppelin 
Games Limited and may not be reproduced, stored or hired without the written permission 
of Zeppelin Games Limited.

© 1990 Zeppelin Games Ltd, PO Box 17 Houghton-le- Spring, Durham DH4 6JW