THE SPECTRUM GAME DATABASE

ERIC AND THE FLOATERS

PUBLISHER
Hudson Soft

AUTHOR
Hudson Soft

YEAR
1984

DESCRIPTION
Eric and the floaters is a single screen arcade game.

CONTROLS
The controls are given at the start of the game.  A variety of
joysticks can also be used.

Left - A/J
Right - D/L
Up - W/I
Down - X/M
Drop Bomb - Space bar

INSTRUCTIONS
You must press any key to start the game.  It will then ask you
if you want to use Keyboard or Joystick.  After that section, the
game will start.

The aim of each level of the game is to kill all of the floaters,
the orange/magenta ball-like things that roam the maze.  To do
this you have one weapon on your side - an infinite supply of
bombs.  When you drop a bomb, they are automatically primed, and
will explode after just a few seconds.

So to kill the baddies you must get close enough to them to
within the range of the bomb, drop it, and quickly run around a
corner to make sure you too are not caught in the explosion.  The
bombs will destroy any floaters that are caught in the blast, and
also certain sections of wall that are in the way, reducing the
playing area to open landscape.

More and more floaters are added each level, and the game does
get quite difficult.  You can also only drop one bomb at a time.

CHEATS

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
Eric and the Floaters is the dim and distant relative of the
console game Bomberman, which was renamed Dynablaster for it's
conversion to the Amiga.  The single player version of this is
very similar to Eric and the Floaters, but the newer version has
the advantage of allowing more than one player, making it one of
the best multi-player games around.

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SCORES RECEIVED

URL
ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/e/eric.zip

GENERAL FACTS

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