AUTOMANIA (MANIC MECHANIC)
(c)1984 Mikro-Gen 
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Aim of the game
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You must help Wally Week build a series of cars.

Game play
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There are two basic screens. The first is the stock room -
Wally must collect the car parts one at a time and take them 
through the door to the assembly plant. This is where the 
finished car takes shape (and it looks very like a Citroen 2CV!). 

Wally simply has to walk over the appropriate area of the vehicle 
with his carried part and that part is added to the car. Then 
it's back to the stock room again.

The game is, as usual, made more difficult by the various 
hazards, which include robots, runaway tyres and falling air 
cooling blades. Fortunately, Wally can jump over these. As well 
as this the gantries in the stock room keep moving in and out 
and there are also various bonuses such as oil cans and teapots, 
scattered around.

In all, there are 10 levels. Once Wally has finished building 
a car, it is driven away and he must start building a new model. 
The further you get, the harder it gets...
  

Inlay Card Text:
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Welcome to the world of Wally Week.

O.K. Wally try and get it right this time!  All you have to do is 
get these car parts  from  the  store,  take them to the assembly 
area and put 'em together. Simple, INNIT?  

If you had bought decent shelving units things wouldn't keep
falling off, would they Wally, and if the gangplanks seem to have 
a mind of their own it's ‘cause you're a Wally, Wally.  If you 
put things back in their right places you wouldn't have to jump 
over them to get what you want. With your flat hat, beer belly  
and oversize boots you really are a Wally, Wally.

You as Wally Week have ten cars to build, each consisting of 6 
parts. You will begin in the store area with tyres bouncing 
around to hit you. You must go to the stock room, identify the  
parts required, and go up the ladders to each level to collect 
them (moving over the part will collect it). The gangplanks are 
none too safe and you must jump the gaps to reach the relevant 
parts. There are various items strewn on the floors which again  
have to be jumped over. These appear in different places on the 
screen, so the game is a constant challenge.

You will then return to the assembly area to place the parts in 
their correct positions on the car,  but to deposit the upper  
parts of the car (e.g. windscreen, roof etc) you will have to 
jump when in the correct position.

Upon loading you are faced with a menu screen on which you will 
see: (C64 version)

Key 1		Music On
Key 2		Music Off
Key 3		Joystick
Key 4		Demonstration Mode
Key 5		Define your own Keys

The program automatically sets

Q-UP        O-LEFT      M-JUMP
A-DOWN      P-RIGHT

and these will stay unless any other is chosen.

The  demonstration  mode will show you what you will encounter 
in the game, and will continue until you press any key to return 
to the menu screen.

You will start with 3 lives and gain an extra life for each car 
you complete. However, you can also have a time limit on each 
car part and will lose a life if you exceed this limit.

Right Wally, away you go!!

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Watch out for Wally Week's other wacky adventures.

COMPETITION RULES

Each  month Mikro-gen agrees to award ś100 in prize money which 
will be paid to the person achieving the highest score to that 
date.

Should one month's highest score not be surpassed, the prize 
money for succeeding months will be awarded to the previous 
verified highest score until it is beaten.

Entries will be only accepted when accompanied by the code that 
appears on the screen

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Comments
"Excellent, playable and addictive."

Rating
88% (CRASH #7, August 1984)

Now
A slow, rather poor and very aged platform game.


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