---  DOWN  (version 1.1) ---
  -     by Team Parc     -
        October 1999


> WHAT IS IT ABOUT?:
You represent a bloke in a shaft. on the screen the shaft scrolls down. You
must keep your bloke on the screen. When you fall of the screen, you loose.
When you get squased at the top, you loose. When you are out of energy, you
loose. The longer you stay on screen, the more you score. A nice extra is
the fact that it can be played with up to 4 players.
There are some items in the game... just find out what they're good for.

> CONTROLS:
The cotrols are simple, but here is an explenation. In the main screen you
can center the game-screen by holding [select] down and using the D-pad.
At start-up, the number of players is set to 1. By pressing [circle], you
can increase the number of players. The game supports up to 4 players. By
pressing [square] you can reduce the number of players.
By pressing [triangle], you see a screen with the game-controls.
By pressing [cross], you'll start the game.
By pressing [start]+[select], you'll quit the game (to avoid a hardware reset).
During the game you use left and right on the D-pad to control your bloke.
In a 2 player game, the second player will need to use the joypad in port 2.
In a 3 or 4 player game, the controls are different. To support 3 or 4
players, we used the split-joypad technique. In that case on joypad 1;
player 1 uses [up] and [down] (D-pad), player 2 uses [triangle] and
[cross]. And this is similar for player 3 and 4 but now with joypad 2.

> HISTORY:
The concept for this game is rather old, it's possible that you've seen a
game on platforms like the Spectrum similar to this. DOWN is only half the
game. The other half is called UP and is temporarely hidden. In future
versions, we might bring back the UP part. And otherwise make a seperate
game called UP.

>TEAM:
This game was coded by Andy Weissl and all designing was done by DEnnis (me)..
We also used idea's and code from others in our team like the jumping-code
from Paul..


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