* THE BIG APPLE * (NYC) OBJECTIVE: ---------- As a visiting tourist, you must visit 12 locations in New York City within a specific amount of time. The locations are: LOCATION SYMBOL -------- ------ EMPIRE STATE BUILDING ES UNITED NATIONS BUILDING UN GRANT'S TOMB GT WORLD TRADE CENTER WT CITICORP CENTER CC CITY HALL CH CENTRAL PARK ZOO ZO POST OFFICE PO AUTOMAT AU MART MA BANK BA SUBWAY SU The BANK and the SUBWAY are always open during the game. All other locations are open only when you see their two letter symbol at the top of screen under SIGHT. In addition to these 12 locations, you will see 3 other locations: LOT: You must retrieve your car from the lot if it is towed. To get your car back you must pay $90+$20 for each 7.5 minutes on the game clock. GAS AND GARAGE: If you are involved in an accident or run out gas, your car will be brought here. When you pick up your car, your tank will be full and you will be charged for the gas and $50 to $350 for repairs. You may buy gas voluntarily by parking and then going into the building and position the man in the top center of the screen. Then hold down the fire button and your gas supply will go up. You will be charged $1 per gallon. HOSPITAL: If you are hit by a vehicle while walking, or if your car is hit by blue tow truck you will be brought here to recuperate and will be charged $200. Each time you start the game, all locations are randomly placed except for: ZOO : Always in Central Park. GARAGE: Always at the east end of Central Park SUBWAY: Entrances are always on the street that runs along the south edge of Central Park. DRIVING THE CAR: Your car is the blue car in the center of the screen. You can drive it forward by moving in the desired direction the car is facing. To stop, simply release the joystick. You can turn 45 degrees from your current direction by moving the joystick in the desired direction. If you park your car and your meter expires, you will get a 'METER EXPIRED' message. If you run out of gas or your meter expires, your car will be towed to GAS AND GARAGE, and you will become a pedestrian if you weren't already one. BEING A PEDESTRIAN: To enter any of the 12 locations you must visit, you will have to get out of your car. Getting into an accident with the blue tow truck will get you out of your car automatically. A better way is to pull into parking space or parking space or parking lot and push the joystick button. Pushing the button will get you out of your car only when you are legally parked or out of gas. To enter a location, just walk in the front door. If you don't disappear in-side, you are not lined up with the door. To get back into your car, stand on the left end of the car and push the fire button. If you leave your car parked too long, the tow truck will come to tow your car away to the lot. THE LOCATIONS: Empire State Building (ES), United Nations Building (UN), Grant's Tomb (GT), World Trade Center (WT), Citicorp Center (CC), City Hall (CH). These six locations have the same objective but each one will be successively more difficult. You must make your way to the top of the grid of platforms and ladders, grab the pretzel or key, and exit the bottom of the screen without running into the men who are chasing you. If you get caught, you will lose $50 and have to start again at the bottom of the screen. The two men who are chasing you can bridge the gaps which might be present. You must try to lure the men to the necessary place. CENTRAL PARK ZOO: Someone has let the animals out of their cages at the zoo! The animals must be put into separate fenced areas. To lay a fence, hold down the fire button and move the joystick. You must fence each animal so that it is completely surrounded by fencing or walls. You may freeze caged animals by moving to the top of the screen and pressing the fire button. Each caged animal will then be frozen and $25 dollars will be deducted from your money. You must freeze all the animals to complete this segment of the game. BEWARE! The animals bite (including frozen ones) and each bite costs you $50 and you must start again at the top of the screen. POST OFFICE: The Post Office is the most difficult of the locations to complete. The object is to grab the letter, place it on the empty stamp pad, wait for it to be stamped, take it off the stamp pad, climb up the ladder and put it into the white mail box at the top of the screen. The Post Office is divided into several colored bands. You must use the fire button to jump from one color up to the next. To move down the screen to a different color, simply move the joystick down. Your first task is to get the letter you are trying to mail. You must chase the letter and jump if necessary to grab the letter. If you miss, you will be charged $50 and have to start over at the bottom of the screen. You must next get through the moving mail carts and past the dog to the stamping pads. Touching either the mail carts or the dog will cause you to start again at the bottom of the screen. Since the dog will follow you, try luring the dog to the far left of the screen and then dash to the right while avoiding the mail cars. Your letter must next be stamped. To do this, position yourself next to a stamper. Wait until your stamper stamps and then jump onto the pad and quickly get out of the way. If you fail to get out of the way, you will also be stamped, lose $50, and have to start over. If your letter is successfully stamped, you will start with your letter on the stamp pad any time you are forced to start over. Next you must take your letter off the pad and put it into the white mail box at the top of the screen. You must retrieve your letter from the pad by jumping onto the pad. You must then jump onto a ladder and ride the ladder until you can drop your letter into the proper mail box. You may not ride a ladder off the edge of the screen, so it may be necessary to move off a ladder temporarily. To do this, move your character down off the ladder by moving the joystick down. Be sure you do not exit onto a stamper! Once your letter has been dropped into the proper mail box, you must make your way back to the bottom of the screen while avoiding the dangers you have just passed. You must repeat this process with another letter to complete this location. AUTOMAT: At 10:00, 2:00, and 6:00 on the game clock, IT'S MEAL TIME will appear. All locations except the automat, bank, gas and garage will then close until you complete the automat location. The object is to eat 10 hamburgers. You can order your burgers by moving to the top of the screen and pressing the fire button. Each time you press the button you will be charged $20 and a burger will appear on the screen. You must catch 10 burgers while avoiding Felix Hunger who also has designs on your burgers. Getting bit by Felix costs you $50. When you have ate ten hamburgers, congratulations! You are done.