MILLIPEDE
Blast Those Bugs
Video Game Cart for the ATARI 2600 VCS

RID YOUR GARDEN OF THOSE BOTHERSOME BUGS!
An army of menacing millipedes - cousins to the famed Centipede - have
invaded your garden patch, and you must shoot arrows at them to rid
your plot of these pesky pests.  But wait!  The millipedes aren't the
only insidious insects you have to destroy.  Jumping spiders, buzzing 
bees, bouncing beetles, mosquitoes, dragonflies, inchworms, and earwigs
all have unique and deadly powers of their own!

GETTING STARTED
Insert the MILLIPEDE cartridge as explained in your 2600 Video Computer
System owner's guide, and turn on your system.

Plug a joystick controller into the LEFT CONTROLLER jack for this
one-player game.

Press GAME SELECT or the fire button to select the number of points you
want to begin a game with.  In the first game of any game playing
session, you can start with 0, 15,000, or 30,000 points.  Move your
controller forward to increase your score and back to decrease your 
score.  After the first game, you can start at up to 15,000 points
below your previous high score (in 15,000 point increments up to
300,000).  If you just played a game and scored 107,000 points, for
example, you can start your next game at 90,000.

SURVIVAL TIPS
* Make sure you keep your eye on the millipede while you're getting rid
of the other pests.  The millipede can sneak up on you if you're not
careful, so keep it under control.

* If a millipede touches a poisonous mushroom - poinsonous mushrooms
are colored differently from most - watch out!  The millipede will
charge directly at you!

* When the insects swarm, you're in for big trouble if you're not
alert.  Only a spider can enter the garden while the mosquitoes, bees,
or dragonflies are swarming.  You get 100 extra points (above the
normal point value) for the second swarming bug you destroy, 200 for
the third, and so forth - up to 1000 extra points per bug.  But beware! 
Swarming bugs fly fast and furious!

* Each insect has its own unique sound, so keep your ears open and you
can anticipate what will be coming next.

SCORING
You begin the game with three lives.  For every 15,000 points you earn,
you're awarded another life.

*Mushroom 		1
Mushrooms are all right, but they're slowly choking you out of your
garden.

*Millipede head 	100
*Millipede segment 	10
The millipedes attack from the top of your garden.  They march back and
forth across your patch until they get to the bottom.  When a millipede
bumps into a mushroom, it reverses direction.  If any part of the
millipede touches you, you're finished!

*Spider 		300, 600, 900, or 1200
Jumping spiders enter from either side of the screen.  How many points
you get for ridding the garden of a spider depends on how close it is
when you shoot it.

*Beetles		300
Beetles crawl in when you least expect them.  They also have a
paricular pattern they follow, so pay attention!

*Mosquito 		400
Swat mosquitoes for big points.  But you'd better be quick with your
arrows - mosquitoes also swarm!

*Bees 			200
Bees buzz randomly through the magic patch.  They have a very distinct
sound, so they're easy to recognize.  But watch out when they swarm at
you or you're sure to get stung!

*Inchworm 		100
The inchworm can't move too quickly, but is tricky just the same.  When
you shoot this little critter, the movement of all the insects on the
screen is slowed down for about four seconds.

*DDT Bomb 		800
Thank goodness for pesticides!  Just pierce one of the DDT bombs in
your garden and earn an automatic 800 points.  Expode the DDT at the
right time, and the vapor will wipe out any bug it touches!  For each
bug that's destroyed by DDT, you'll earn triple the points you'd 
normally get for it.

*Dragonfly 		500
Be careful!  These flying beasts like to swarm too.

*Earwig 		1000
Earwigs are hard to hit, but if you're on target, they're worth a lot. 
Earwigs also poison mushrooms on contact, changing their color if you
don't get them before they cross the width of the screen.  Get the
earwigs before they cause more damage.

Each time you lose a bug blaster, you receive 5 points for every flower
and every three mushrooms left on the screen.

(c) 1987 ATARI CORP
Designed by Dave Staugas
Computer Graphics by Jerome Domurat
Audio by Andrew Fuchs and Robert Victra
Arcade game by Ed Logg

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