6 July, 1998 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A M A T E U R W A R S v1.0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Started: 24/5/98 (13:36) v1.0: 6/7/98 (21:55) THE STORY SO FAR...(Hey, I think it's always worth the effort...) British TV in 2098 is worse than we thought... The proliferation of digital television in the late 20th century has led to the creation of 1000's of channels worth of total crap. Station broadcasters mistook the presence of near-limitless bandwidth for an opportunity to show Barney, Jerry Springer and re-runs of Cheers - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Quantity over quality has taken its toll on viewers; over a hundred years later, millions of hours worth of Eastenders has resulted in a Pavlovian association effect - chronic aversion to television in any shape or form. Bizzarely, people have returned to primitive pastimes such as reading, going for walks with their family and beating each other up. Television companies are spending money like Imelda Markos in a shoe shop, desperate to regain a viewing share from the few illiterate, unfit, uneducated souls that still watch 'Friends: The Golden Years' and rent old Brandon Anderson-Lee porno movies. AMATEUR WARS is the latest attempt to try and grab the ever- dwindling market share. Two guys climb into the most lethal killing machines ever devised (er, in Paintbrush) and try to blow each other to hell with a surprisingly limited array of weaponry. With a cheesy arena, no special effects and broadcast in No-Sound, the BBC execs have their fingers crossed that the couch potatoes of Tony Blair's Cool Britannia (tm) will find AMATEUR WARS compulsive viewing... (15 mins later: Oh dear. I'll do better next time) ----------- CONTROLS ----------- (Standard Pad Mode ONLY!) D-PAD - Move your ship SQUARE - Strafe CROSS - Fire CIRCLE - Hold position START - Restart game SELECT - Quit (P1 only) ----------- FULLY COMMENTED SOURCE AVAILABLE IN main.c ===================================== Nick Ferguson, Edinburgh 6 July, 1998 nickf@saqnet.co.uk http://www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf http://www.n64gazetta.com =====================================