JAMES BOND (c)1984 Parker Brothers ----------------------- STARTING THE GAME Keys F3 and F5 as indicated allow to select the number of players and the difficulty level. Then press F1 to start the game. Pause Key: F7 (This is a critical key as the game is VERY long!) GAME PLAY The screen then tells you "Good Luck, Mr Bond" and up you go on your first mission, "Diamonds are Forever." This mission, as all the 4 missions of the game, is divided in several phases that are for you to find out... You need to familiarize yourself with the landscape and the use of your vehicle with its weapons. The landscape changes somewhat in each game, so beware! When you reach a new phase, if you die there you continue your next life at the start of that new phase (you have 5 lives to start with). If you lose all your lives, you are told "Good Bye, Mr Bond" and you have to press F1 to restart. (You can use F3 and F5 at any time in the game to restart from the beginning - you may want to do that if you have lost too many lives already.) If you succeed to reach the end of the mission you are then told "Good Show, Mr Bond" and on you go to the next mission, which can be either --- For Your Eyes Only, --- Moonracker, or --- The Spy who Loved Me. CONTROLS Joystick in port 1 (one player or two players alternating). In the first mission using your joystick your vehicle can jump (pull) or dive (push), advance (right) or lag (left) on the screen, with Fire Button shooting missiles both up and down. You can also use the keyboard. In the first mission: key Action --------- ------------- M Shoot missiles at the diamonds and scuba-divers Top row Jump, dive and advance on screen - Choose the (1 through -) keys most convenient - they alternate in their function (find out!) 2nd row Drag back toward left of scrolling screen (A through L) HISTORICAL NOTES This game was cracked by ANTIRAM in 1984 (in the US). ANTIRAM (an early cracker) removed the copyright notice as it was customary at the time. Since then many people, especially in Europe, had no idea who originated the game (it seems not to have been published in Europe). Much later GCS (the "German Cracking Service") literally stole the crack (they did not exist in 1984!) and put their advertizing screen (with its big flag) in front... to the point that ARNOLD now identifies GCS as the cracker! I could not find a copy of the game on the Web without the GCS flag screen! I had to do something about it. I found recently (May 2000) at the LEMON site that the originator of the game was at last identified on the list of games (yet with a GCS copy to download!). Separately, this game is identified as "James Bond: Diamonds are Forever" in many places on the Web. Sorry, there were 4 parts to the game, 4 different movie title references as listed above, at least in the original cartridge! Diamonds are Forever is only the first part! If the crack is incomplete then it must be because ANTIRAM originally was unable to take all the parts from a complex banked 32K cartridge... (like Simon's Basic cartridge). I have not gone through the entire game, but I can tell that there were various missions in the original by examining the program. Without a full test I cannot tell whether the game file available on the Web is complete. (Most likely it isn't as the file is only 14K, so... for you to find out - or maybe someone has the original cartridge and can inform us!). FINAL NOTE It is a difficult game which makes you sweat a lot if you want to go far, even at the novice level. The discovery part in this game (including the controls!) is most important. It had a coin-op version back in the early 1980s. (Like Gyrus which dates from the same year, but the Bond game is far more original.) -END-