THE SPECTRUM GAMES DATABASE

TERRAPIN

PUBLISHER

Appeared as an article in Your Computer magazine

AUTHOR
Ian Collier

YEAR
1984?

DESCRIPTION
Clone of an obscure arcade game called Turpin.

CONTROLS
Keyboard, cursor or kempston joystick.  The game featured in Your
Computer had the Ultimate-style QWERT keys, but a newer version
has QAOP+space keys and also has Sinclair joystick control.

INSTRUCTIONS
Your purpose in life is to rescue baby terrapins and take them
home without being killed by a bug.  Six of the mystery boxes in
the maze contain babies but the other two contain turtles so you
must run away as quickly as possible.  When you enter a mystery
box and find a baby, a house will appear and you must take the
baby to it.  As a method of defense you can drop bombs, but these
only stun the turtles for a short time.  While a turtle is
stunned you can walk over it.  You can collect more bombs by
passing over the star in the middle of the screen.

CHEATS

URL
ftp.nvg.unit.no in /pub/sinclair/incoming (!) as part of the
imcgames.zip.

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