THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

SCUBA DIVE

PUBLISHER
Durrell

AUTHOR
Mike Richardson

YEAR
1983

CATEGORY
Arcade

DESCRIPTION
Scuba diving arcade game with a HUGE collection of sea-beasts!

CONTROLS
Redfinable Keys

INSTRUCTIONS
Take control of a little guy in scuba gear as he explores the sea
from his boat, looking for hidden treasures! As you swim about
(avoiding the assorted marine-life), you will find clams on the
ocean bed. When they open their shells, swoop down and grab their
pearls! Return these pearls to the ship to earn points. Watch out
for you air level - you'll need to return to the boat when it
gets low, but the boat doesn't stay still - it moves!

To get the big points, find the octopus. Swim under him (it's
pretty hard!) and you'll find a lower down section with much
bigger clams (and fish!). Find another octopus here and swim down
again, and you'll find a chasm. Leading off this chasm are many
narrow passages. Hidden in these passages are treasure chests
which are worth bucket-loads of points!  Watch you don't crash
into the rocks too many times though, and keep an eye on that air
level! There are air tanks which you can refill your oxygen from
in these lower sections, but they're few and far between!


INLAY CARD TEXT


CHEATS
POKE 55711,x where x is the number of lives you want
POKE 45696,0 makes the clams stay open longer
POKE 55845,0 to grab yourself infinite lives

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
None.

SCORES RECEIVED


URL
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair/snaps/games/unsorted/s/scub
adiv.zip

GENERAL FACTS
Crashing into rocks when carrying pearls or treasure is a really
bad idea, 'cos you'll drop whatever it was you were carrying and
that's it - you can't get it back!

The sea bed is random every time you play the game! No
remembering where that treasure chest was from last time, eh? The
play area also wraps around - swim far enough to the left or
right and you'll come back to where you started. Handy for
catching the boat if you lost it ages ago - just swim in the
opposite direction!

Mike went on to write other top games for Durrell, including the
marvellous Turbo Esprit!

NOTES
A good game! Not particularly fast paced, but it has it's
panic-inducing moments! I think the point of the game is just to
score as highly as possible.