Puggsy - Manual

 Puggsy's  in a mess.  Not only is he stranded on an alien planet fifteen light
 years  from  his  home  space  station,stardock,but  now he's had hisspaceship
 stolen!   there  are bad days and they are really bad days!!!  And so puggsy's
 got a problem - major league.i mean, it's bad enough losing your keys downtown
 without a ride home.Being stranded on a planet without so much as a skateboard
 to  get  you  around  is  a  little  more distressing Not even Captain Kirk or
 mr.Spock  had to cope with that!  but, undeterred, puggsy is determined to get
 his stolen spaceship back.
 
 OPTIONS MENU:
 Enter the options menu by highlighting the selection and pressing start.
 
 MOVEMENT:
 Puggsy can JUMP and PICK-UP,DROP & USE OBJECTS.
 
 OPTIONS:
 The options menu allows you to configure the controls as you like
 
 LIVES:
 Give  puggsy  heaps  of  lives  to  help him get his ship back!  Highlight the
 option by moving the arrow down with the joystick.  Each heart is a life.  You
 may  take up to 7 lives by moving in the right direction.  Minimise the number
 of  lives  and make the game all the harder by moving left-giving puggsy fewer
 lives.
 
 PASSWORDS:
 Finally,  you  may punch in the appropriate passwords to enter later levels to
 play.Once  you have completed a section - such as THE BEACH, you can press "P"
 on  the  keyboard and a password will be displayed.  Jot down the password (or
 should that be pass number) and should you want to rejoin the level at a later
 date,  enter  that  password  here by highlighting the appropriate numbers and
 hitting the button to enter, or you can type the password in.
 
 JUNIOR LEVEL:
 Get accustomed to puggsy's little way by taking him through the junior section
 -  a  section  that's  ideally suited to the younger player.  Here you will be
 gently  hurled into puggsy's quest in the softest, most loveable way possible.
 You'll  also learn how to grap the gun and shoot things.  Oh what fun you will
 have.
 
 PUGGSY'S AIM:
 All puggsy wants is to get off the planet and get home.  Plain and simple.  To
 do  this,  he  must traverse most of the game levels, and leave by the exit!!.
 The  thing is, that the island has a great many paths, some of which might not
 lead towards puggsy's spaceship.  Plus some levels may also have more than one
 exit!It's up to you to make your way from level to level and not from level to
 dead  end!   Plus  there  are loads of special secret levels and short cuts to
 help  puggsy on his way.  Enter the exit carrying an object and you'll receive
 a hefty bonus.  Carry more than one object or a rare object and you'll receive
 an even heftier bonus.
 
 THE GAME:
 Puggsy  can  walk left or right,jump,shoot,pick-up and run.  But c'mon, that's
 nothing special now is it.  Well, that makes puggsy unique in the Total Object
 Interaction to be found within the game.  Puggsy can interact with billions of
 onscreen  objects  which  he must use to help him along.  Find thez box with a
 pair  of  sneakers in it,pick it up,press the button, and puggsy will put them
 on  and  dash  along  like  a  sprinter.   Grab the invincibility shield,press
 use,and hurl yourself into the rascally racoons as if your life depend on it -
 because  it doesn't - you're now invincible!  (for more on TOI, see the Object
 Section).   You'll  discover all the objects along your journey but it's up to
 you  to find out just what they're all for.Use the section at the back of this
 manual  to  note  down  just what all the objects do.  However on some levels,
 you'll  be  given  clues to find a certain objects by the clue chest.  Open it
 and  it'll  tell  you what object to look out fot.  Some of the objects you'll
 just  stand on or have to position in strategically important places to finish
 the  level.   Others,  you  must  use in a certain way.  But it's down to your
 ingenuity  to  decide  just  how  to  use them.  If you get struck on a screen
 restart it, without even losing a life, by pressing ESCAPE.
 
 CONTROLLING PUGGSY:
 The  height  puggsy  jumps  is  dependent  on the lenght of time jump is held.
 There  are  therefore thousands of variations available to puggsy at any time.
 Plus,  apart  from  just  allowing  puggsy to jump around, you can also squash
 mostenemies  by  jumping  on  top of them and pressing down.  The PICK-UP/DROP
 button  allows puggsy to - yeah right.  If puggsy is close to an object, press
 this  button  and  he'll  pick  it up - assuming he's not already holding one.
 Press  the  button again and he'll drop it.  It's a cinch.  And if two objects
 are  piled  on  top  of each other,grab either the top or bottom one by moving
 puggsy's  arms  up  or down (using either the up or down control) and then the
 pick-up  button.   Easy.   Also, puggsy has a special throw.  Rather than just
 dropping  the  object  puggsy's  carrying,  try  pressing the direction arrows
 either up or diagonally upwards and pressing drop.  The objects will be hurled
 in the direction you've chosen.  And that's really handy because if the object
 hits  any enemy from above, then they'll really know about it!  When trying to
 jump  onto objects that are too high for puggsy, puggsy can use objects in his
 grasp  to  help  him get a grip on the surface and haul himself upwards.  Once
 puggsy  is  trying  to  grip  on  a  ledge  with  the object, keep holding the
 direction  control downwards in the direction that puggsy wants to jump.  That
 way,he'll have no problem in making it (usually!!).  A final couple of points.
 If  puggsy  finds  himself on top of a pile of objects, pressing down lets him
 drop  through the objects one at a time.  And if you find things are happening
 just  a  little too quickly, then pause the game at a many time by hitting the
 key "P".
 
 HAPPENINGS:
 
 On  most  levels, happenings can be found.  These can usually be identified by
 the  fact  that  something is happening or is about to happen.  This happening
 must  happen in order for you to complete the level.  Confused??  it's OK.  So
 are  we.......   Happenings  take the form of switches,locks,ropes,cannons and
 several  trillion  other mechanisms which must be used to continue to the next
 level.   These  items  can  be  activated by objects found on that level.  For
 example,  you see a cannon on the screen.  Find and pick-up the match, walk to
 the  cannon,  drop  the  match  onto  the cannon and the cannon fires.  Find a
 switch, get any solid object and walk into the switch with the object and that
 switch  will  be  switched  and,  if  you  drop  an  object near it, will stay
 switched!!
 
 OBJECTS:
 
 Puggsy  uses  a  fantastic  system called Total Objects Interaction (TOI) This
 means  that all the objects play a vital part in completing the game.  It also
 means  that they act and interact exactly as they would if you were using them
 in  the real world (well,more or less.I mean you wouldn't want things to be as
 boring  as in real life now would you??).All objects can be moved,thrown,stood
 upon,stacked,and  used.They  are  subject to gravity,bounce,float (or swim) in
 the  water,get  blown  around by fans and so on.  Also,each object has its own
 weight.   If  puggsy is carring a heavy object,he cannot jump as high as if he
 was  carrying  a  light object.  On the other hand, if puggsy is getting blown
 around  by  a  fan,holding a weighty object might let him walk towards it more
 easily.   Obviously,  heavy  objects cannot be thrown as far as light ones but
 light  objects will be affected much more by fans.  Buoyant objects will float
 in  water  and  if  puggsy stands on a few of these,he can stand water without
 getting  wet!   Similarly,he  can  pump up balloons,hold ontothem and float up
 into  the  air as they rise!  Bear in mind that there are usually no simple no
 single fixed solutions to a problem so it's up to you to use your ingenuity to
 solve them.
 
 MAP SCREEN:
 
 After  each  level,you'll  see an end of level screen followed by a map of the
 entire  island.The  square  box  to  the left shows where you've just been and
 offers  you  a  new  destination.Move the tiny puggsy in the picture along the
 patch with the direction control to progress through the game.  If you come to
 a  dead end, you can retrace your steps on this screen.Press fire to enter the
 level.
 
 SPACE  removes the magnified box to the right of the screen
 
 KEY B  views the password.enter it on the options screen to beggin at your
        present stage.
 
 RETURN shows all the world guardians. Guardians with a line through them have
        already been defeated.
 
 FIRE   enters the selected level.
 
 GUARDIANS:
 
 Every  so  often,  you'll  encounter  a  guardian.  He's there to try and stop
 puggsy  getting  his  space  ship back and must be defeated.  There are 6 evil
 guardians,with between 3 & 6 hit points.
 
 POLLY PIRATE:
 Polly  jumps around firing at puggsy.  All puggsy has to defend himself is the
 odd fish that gets washed up on deck.Position puggsy near the fish and fire it
 at polly.  THE EMPEROR'R OLD CLOTHES:  This fella throws his gloves at puggsy.
 Little  does he know that the ball that's rolling over his head can be dropped
 by puggsy using the switches on the floor!.  SO PHARAOH SO GOOD:  Beware!  the
 pharoe  nose how to get puggsy.But if puggsy steps on the pressure pads,he can
 get  the pharaoh!  simple.  FLOUR POWER:  The nasty miller is throwing bags of
 flour  at  our puggsy whose only defence is to catch the bags with the grabber
 and  dump  them over the miller's head using the conveyor belt.  HALITOSIS THE
 DRAGON:   Avoid  his breath at all costs!  When you get the chance,sneack near
 him and sock him in the jaw.  IF LOOKS COULD KILL!  This is the big boy!  with
 laser  beam  eyes,deathly  bound  and  a nasty habit of dropping mines on you,
 puggsy  has  got his work cut out.  The only way to defeatthis chap is to give
 him a taste of his own medicine.
 
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 Typed by BeLFaST & eXoRDeR / SKID ROW