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One glorious spring day you hike into a dense forest that you've never before explored. As you push deeper into the woods, the trees close up behind you and THE FOLLOWING "HOME-MADE" GAME DOCS ARE THE WORK OF JEFF SYLVA OF PSAN and came to A.N.N. through the kind assistance of Bart Lynch (ZONKER) of UPNADAM BBS  24 hrs., 206-859-2018. 
 
We appreciate the time and effort JEFF SYLVA has taken to prepare these "Home-Made" game Docs.
       
 
CENTIPEDE 
PLAY THE ORIGINAL ARCADE CLASSIC IN YOUR OWN HOME!!!!!!!!!!! 
 
THE ENCHANTED FOREST 
One glorious spring day you hike into a dense forest that you've never before explored. As you push deeper into the woods, the trees close up behind you and the forest grows increasingly dark and ominous. You get a creepy feeling and decide to go back. A chill plays up and down your spine when you turn and realize you're lost. You collapse onto a flat rock beneath an enormous spreading tree and try to regain your sense of direction. A gray squirrel chatters at you.  "How do I get out of here?" you sigh out loud. 
To your amazement, the squirrel speaks!! "Help us and we'll show you the way," promises the squirrel. "This is an enchanted forest," explains the squirrel. "We peace loving animals must suffer the hostile attacks of an evil Centipede, a deadly spider, a venomous flea, and poisonous scorpion. Will you help?" 
"I guess so, But how??" 
Suddenly, a bird flies over, releasing three white feathers. "Catch those," the squirrel instructs. As you catch the feathers, they transform into three glowing wands. "Now you can go to battle for us," says the squirrel. :With those magic wands you can shoot sparks at the Centipede. When any section of the Centipede is hit, it turns into a powerless mushroom. You can also stun the spider, flea and scorpion with sparks, and they will disappear for a short time. But, if one of them bites you before you spark it, you lose consciousness and your magic wand is snatched away." 
Suddenly, you hear a leaf-shaking shriek and the animals scurry about in a frenzy of terror. "Look Out!" cries the squirrel. "Here comes the Centipede!!" 
 
GAME PLAY 
You start the game with three, four or five magic wands, depending on the skill level. You can win bonus awards for reaching a high score. You can have an unlimited amount of magic wands, but a maximum of five wands will be displayed.  When you lose your last magic wand the game ends. 
If the Centipede, spider or flea bites you, your wand is snatched away and you become temporarily paralyzed. The game will stop momentarily and all the mushrooms you paritally destroyed during the battle are restored. Your points are added to your running score and the rejuvenated Centipede attacks again from the top. You must replay the previous wave until the Centipede is totally destroyed. 
 
CENTIPEDE 
Consisting of twelve body segments, each time you hit one, it becomes a powerless mushroom and the body segment behind that mushroom becomes the head of a new Centipede.  It attacks in 12 distinct waves. Each wave adds a detached head segment, after wave one, till wave 12 when it has 12 independently moving heads. 
Mushrooms and the edge of the screen cause the Centipede to go down to the next row, closer to you. It takes four hits to eliminate one mushroom. 
Spider-It eliminates some of the mushrooms it touches in its attempt to distract you from the Centipede. The closer the spider is to you when you zap it the more points you get. 
Flea-The flea starts bugging you soon as you shoot away most of the mushrooms near you. It drops down creating mushrooms as it falls. You must hit the flea twice to make it go away. Warning. After the first shot the flea drops more than twice as fast!! 
 
Scorpion-By the third wave, the scoripion scurries across the screen, poisoning the mushrooms it touches. At first it moves slowly, then faster as the game progresses. 
 
Poison mushrooms are magneta in color. When the Centipede bumps into one of these, it goes crazy and plunges straight for you, So watch out. 
 
Pause is the # key. 
Restart is the * key. 
Game rolls over at 999,999 points 
Scoring 
Centipede body segment-10 
Centipede head-100 
Spider-300-900 
Flea-200 
Scorpian-1000 
Magic Mushrooms totally eliminated-1 
Mushroom shot 1-3 times-5 
Poison mush totally eliminated-1 
Poison Mushroom shot 1 to 3 times-5 
Poison Mushroom not shot-5 
Bonus wand every 10,000 points easy level only. 
 
HINTS 
Shoot mushrooms away in a straight line up the screen to create a corridor which, when the centipede reached it, will fall straight down and can be easily picked off. 
 
Since the flea doesnt appear till you eliminate most of the mushrooms near you, you can set up a shield to prevent this pest from striking simply by refraining from shooting away mushrooms near your magic wand. 
 
Shoot Centipede Heads to creat new heads out of the body segment left behind. Since heads are worth 10 times the point value of the body segments you will score more. 
 
You can use an Atari joystick in port one and make your game selections with a Coleco joystick in port two. 
 
You can also use Colecos Roller Controller to play this game, set on the JOYSTICK SWITCH MODE...It wont work on the Roller Controller mode since it wasnt designed for use with the roller controller, but it works fine, when the switch on the roller controller is set to joystick games... 
 
HAVE FUN!!  mushrooms away in a straight line up the screen to create a corridor 
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