THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

ROCKFALL
ROCKFALL 2

PUBLISHER
CRASH magazine powertape

AUTHOR
Ian Collier, with help from his friends for the graphics and
level design.

YEAR
1989 and 1991

DESCRIPTION
"Boulderdash" variant.

CONTROLS
The keyboard controls are redefinable

INSTRUCTIONS
You are a white character in the middle of a maze containing
various amounts of grass, rocks, walls, aliens and jewels.  Your
aim is to collect the requisite number of jewels and then find
the exit without being squashed by a rock or eaten by an alien. 
You can tunnel under rocks without being harmed, but as soon as
the rocks start to fall you had better get out of the way.  For
added interest there are also some bombs lying around.  These
blow up when they reach the bottom of their fall.

The aliens will kill you if you end up on a horizontally or
vertically adjacent square.  You can kill them by dropping things
on their heads.  The cyan butterflies are special; they turn into
diamonds when you kill them.

If you get completely buried or manage to blow up some of the
jewels, then as a last resort you may commit suicide by pressing
the "abort" key and lose one life.


CHEATS
If your best level is greater than 1 then you get the chance to
select a starting level.  On Rockfall, if you enter wIlBuR then
the program will stop and you can make changes to the BASIC
control program and its variables.  You can stop Rockfall 2 by
pressing CAPS, S, E, 4 and 6 at the same time, but this might
just make it crash depending on where you got your copy from. 
There is no BASIC control program however.

NOTES
Both games use 128K sound if available or 48K sound    
otherwise.  Rockfall also uses the Currah uSpeech, but this may
depend on whether the copy you have was created with a uSpeech
attached.  Rockfall 2 is also compatible with the Sam Coupe and
uses its sound chip.

Rockfall 2 has identical gameplay with Rockfall 1; it has a
prettier menu screen, slightly different graphics, a new "game
over" screen, and lots of new levels.

URL
ftp.nvg.unit.no in /pub/sinclair/snaps/games/arcade as
rockfall.zip and rockfall2.zip

FACTS
There are quite a lot of Boulderdash variants available on the
Spectrum, including Repton Mania and Balderdash.

NOTES