======================================= MINIT MAN DOCS ======================================= THE OUTPOST 312/\441-6957 MINIT MAN is a three-screened game in which you have to load and launch 3 interplanetary missiles before the alien mother ship destroys you. The missles you must use to destroy the mother ship are on the other side of a gorge with a broken bridge. You have to fly to the government warehouse on the right-hand screen, pick up trusses and beams, one at a time, and fly them back to complete the bridge on the left-hand screen. Meanwhile, you must protect the launch computer in the command building in the center screen from the attacking alien robots. Once you have built the bridge, the train automatically brings a missle to the launching pad on the middle screen. You then land, leave the 'copter, and proceed down the back-and-forth hallways of the command building and reach the computer which then fires the missles. You must launch all three missles in under 5 minutes in order to complete the first level. To build bridge: once you have a beam or truss picked up from warehouse, fly to bridge, position it EXACTLY and press both fire buttons at the same time. To kill robots: robots fly down at center screen and enter command building to get launch computer. When they are hit with 3 shots, they turn into a land mine which kills you or damages a robot if it is touched. Sometimes a robot will fly to destroy bridge instead of computer, so you must try to protect both screes at the same time. The minit man can fire lazer, jump mines, & duck shots. To manuever helicopter: it faces in 5 directions, and it flys fastest in the direction it is facing. To change directions, push button 1 while pointing joystick to desired direction. Fire lazer cannon with button 0. You lose when: the time on the clock runs out, all 5 minit men die, or a robot gets to the launch computer. If all this sounds tough, there are some advantages you do have. Your copter flies faster than the robots, you can shoot through the windows in the command building to kill robots easily, and if minit man dies inside the building, he leaves a power pill which makes next minit man faster and clogs robot's lazers. Missellaneous: you can enter the command building from either the center or right-hand screen. Also, watch out for robot lazer cannons perched above the bridge on left screen and warehouse on right screen. This is a difficult game to master, if you can ever master it at all!