THE SPECTRUM GAME DATABASE

CHILLER

PUBLISHER
Mastertronic

CATALOGUE NUMBER
IS 0036

AUTHOR
Mastertronic

YEAR
1985

DESCRIPTION
Platform Collect-Em-Up

CONTROLS:
Q to T = Left
Y to P = Right
H to ENTER = Jump
Plus Joysticks

INSTRUCTIONS
The night fills you with untold terror, you fear for yourself and
for the woman you love who has been spirited away to the haunted
mansion by the ghouls that now threaten you.  As you approach the
forest in search of your beloved, your car coughs to a halt and
the engine dies. You have run out of gas.

You have to continue your plight on foot through the perilous
undergrowth if a ghoul, zombie, ghost or bat touches you they
drain your energy. You can walk or jump, each requiring more
energy. You can boost your energy by eating the mushrooms (BEWARE
of the mushrooms which turn out to be poisonous toadstools) Your
only chance of leaving the forest is by collecting all the
magic crosses.  As your search continues and you near the haunted
mansion the danger increases. You will enter the cinema on the
edge of the forest where more spooks await you. Next is the
ghetto, next a graveyard and at last you will reach the mansion
where you will find your girlfriend.  BUT your troubles have only
just begun, as you go to caress her cheek you realise that she
herself has become possessed by evil spirits.  Panic fills your
soul and you have to escape back from whence you came through the
graveyard, the ghetto, the cinema and finally the forest. At each
step aware that behind you at any moment may be...

CHEATS
POKE 34025,0 - Infinite Lives

SEQUELS
None

SCORES RECEIVED
42% - Crash 15 (Apr 1985)

URL
ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/c/chiller.zip

NOTES
Take-off of Michael Jacksons "Thriller" is a competent but quite
a hard and frustrating platform game.