THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE CYBERUN PUBLISHER Ultimate Play The Game (ACG) AUTHORS US Gold in House Team YEAR OF RELEASE May 1986 DESCRIPTION Cyberun is a "Thrust" type game in as much as you control a spacecraft of one form or another and have to explore a planet's surface and also explore beneath it. The object of the game is to construct your spacecraft and mine ores. INSTRUCTIONS Find the correct pieces of your craft that are littered around the game area and connect them to your spacecraft. CONTROLS CYBERUN KEYBOARD CONTROLS LEFT Your Spaceship will Move Left using the Z, C, B and M keys. RIGHT Your Spaceship will Move Right using the X, V N and SYMBOL SHIFT keys. THRUST UP Your Spaceship will be Thrusted Up using A, S, D, F row etc. LASER/PHOTON TORPEDO You can use your Laser/Photon torpedo using Q, W, E, R, T row etc. PLASMA RAY You can use your Plasma Ray using the 1-0 keys. PAUSE The Whole game can be continuously paused using the CAPS SHIFT or BREAK SPACE keys. CHEATS SEQUELS/PREQUELS INLAY CARD TEXT CYBERUN In the dark reaches of the Amobeus Nebula stands the isolated series of stars and planets, the Beta Gamma System. But to those who have taken the Space, the Zebarema. A tightly bound cluster of planets and dark stars, totally unique in the Whole Universe, bound together by a lattice of Plasmic Energy, extending between one and all Planets in the System. Each planet is composed of Anti-element Cybertron, it is the only known source in the whole universe and such is its value that many such civilisations have devoted their entire resources to prying off one of the smaller outer planets from the main cluster, in a futile bid to gain access to the untold wealth it would bring, once free from the Antiplasmic Lattice, and becomes exposed to positive matter space, it crystalises to form Cybernite, the hardest substance in the known universe, resistant to all forms of heat and energy, allowing the weilders to mine the greatest form of energy ever, the stars. For who can control the Zebarema, can control the Galaxy. But the Beta Gamma System "Zebarema" is reluctant to give up its Cybernite Crystals and exerts an almost unbeatable magnetronic pull on all matter trying to escape its protective envelope. Thus the undertaking of construction of an enormous carrier of The precious Cargo, the Crystal Ship. Many years and many lives have been spent on this vast Space Sailer and the time draws near, for the ship'a destined function, for only the Superlative Power of one such vessel can resist the magnetronic pull exerted by the system on any leaving body. Due to its immense size, the ship has been constructed in stages which have already been shipped out to the Zebarema System. These propulsion units are of little use elsewhere in the Galaxy and have been constructed solely for use as escape Engines and Auxilliaries which obey the strange physical laws particular to the Beta Gamma System. The command module is ready and awaits only the pre-launch computer checks to secure Lift Off. The Crystal Ship has been equipped with military lasers, as the Legendary Hourney is sure to be opposed by the murdering barbaric inhabitants of nearby Galaxies, perhaps they may have constructed a Space Cruiser to utilise the mining and thrus equipment already in the Zebarema System. Who could have forseen their production of the Mark III Crystal Ship and its earlier unscheduled arrival on the Cybertron Planet? And so begins the greatest journey of all time, the race through Space for command of the Universe, THE CYBERUN... SCORES/REVIEWS Crash, issue 28 (May 1986), page 26, 90 percent. SNAPSHOTS/URLS ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/c/cyberun.zip FACTS ABOUT THE GAME The only post "Knightlore" game that wasn't in their ever-so-poular and over used, isometric 3D format. NOTES For some (sane) reason, Cyberun DOESN'T feature a silly list of daft and irrelevantly LONG list of all the game's features - Phew!