FLOOD

MANUAL

Meet Quiffy

Quiffy is a slightly overweight, wee green Blobble who lives in secret caverns deep underground, feeding on the trash left behind by an ancient and enigmatic civilization. Unfortunately, these caverns have been overrun with nasty creatures like Psycho Teddies and Quiffy's distant cousins, the Bulbous Headed Vong.

These unlovely creatures have waged a vicious war on Quiffy's kind and he is now in the unfortunate position of being the last surviving member of his race. Indeed, you can see the luckless participants of this genocidal war stretched throughout the inter-connected caverns.

If all that wasn't bad enough, the mysterious taps of wrath have suddenly ended their years of arid indifference and have started to cascade vast quantities of water into the caverns. Because Quiffy cannot breathe under water, he has decided that enough is enough and he resolved to make his way to surface and escape the creeping doom of the Flood.

What do you have to do?

The idea of FLOOD is very simple, within each level Quiffy must explore the caverns that make up that level and collect all the trash that is not nailed down. Once he has collected all the trash, then he can use the END OF LEVEL TELEPORTER and proceed to the next level.

In addition to the 36 normal levels, Quiffy must also negotiate his way through a further 6 levels that devilish Vong have built, making 42 in all!

There are two types of teleporter which outwardly look identical: THE END OF LEVEL TELEPORTER and the IN LEVEL TELEPORTERS.

The END OF LEVEL TELEPORTER takes Quiffy to the next level once he's picked up all of the trash on the current level.

The IN LEVEL TELEPORTERS (which can be invisible) are linked in pairs and just move you to the linked IN LEVEL TELEPORTER, which will be at a different location within the current level.

The Status Bar

OXYGEN - This is a blue bar that shows how much oxygen Quiffy has left, While Quiffy is under water, his oxygen is slowly used up. Once Quiffy has no oxygen remaining, he will start to lose life force and eventually die.

SCORE - Well well, this is your score!

TRASH - This is a count of how much trash Quiffy has to collect before he can use the END OF LEVEL TELEPORTER and get to the next level. Some monsters are real litter louts, throwing trash all over the place, increasing the amount of stuff that Quiffy will have to clear up, while others are more considerate and will eat any spare trash they see lying around.

LIFE FORCE - This brown bar shows how healthy Quiffy is. Once it has all been used up, Quiffy will mutate down into a gooey mess and die.

Other objects

Barrels		Stops creatures roaming too far.
Stout			It's good for you! Gives you an extra life.
Cocktail		Be invincible for a short time.
Orange can		Creatures disappear but you are butterfingered.
Plunger		Pauses the flood temporarily.
Hearts		Increase your life force and your score.
Mines			Boom! Lose some life force.
Switch		Discover hidden objects and secret passages
Droplet		Speed up the flood.
Balloons		Jump on these for a slow ride up, but mind you
			don't burst them.
Parachute		Jump on it for a slow ride down. Push the
			joystick up to slow your decent even further.

Zap to level

While playing a level, if you see a ?, then just walk Quiffy over it to get the password to that level. Not all of the levels have passwords, so they will be missing on some levels.

At the start of the game, a box comes up, prompting you for a four letter password. If you have found a password to a specific level while playing an earlier game, then type in the password and press RETURN. When you press RETURN, the level number corresponding to that password will be displayed and once you press FIRE you will start the game at that level.

The Hardware

There is a variety of life threatening hardware scattered throughout the caverns, presumably left over from the somewhat unpleasant war waged upon Quiffy's kind. Due to the unfriendly disposition of the other denizens of the caverns towards Quiffy, it's usually advisable to grab the first dangerous looking piece of kit that comes to hand and blast anything that comes near!

Known dangerous hardware includes: Huge Flamethrowers, Grenades, Boomerangs, Shuriken and delayed action Dynamite.

Remember, it doesn't always pay to shoot first!

Keyboard commands

P	- Pause (Press fire on your joystick to continue)
R	- Restart the level and lose a life.
ESC	- Quit