__________ ____________ ____________ / \ | \ | \ / ____ \ | ____ \ | ____ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |__| | | |__| | | |__| | | | | / | ____ < | ____ | | ______/ | | | | | | | | | | | |__| | | | | | | | | / |_____| |_____| |______| |___________/ +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | THE GAME | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ APB - All Points Bulletin. Put your foot on the gas and let rip as you roar through the streets of the city in a series of hilarious and wild car chases. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GETTING STARTED | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ You play the role of Officer Bob, a tough Cop in this challenging cartoon-style game, whose job is to patrol the streets of the city and apprehend various criminals in your trusty Police Car. Each day you are given a quota of offenders who must be apprehended before the day is out in order to get a salary bonus and keep your job. These include litter louts, drunks and hitch-hikers. At times you'll receive an All Points Bulletin on a particularly dangerous villain who must be tracked down and arrested. Should you catch Sid Sniper, Freddy Freak or any of the other master criminals, you must return them to the station for 'questioning'. If they confess, you can forget about your quota for the rest of the day. However, wringing a confession out of them is not that easy, and you must be through before the Chief comes in. Waggle the joystick left and right as quickly as you can - a grid shows how fast you're going and how close the criminal is to confessing. To arrest an offender, you must position the Steering Wheel Cursor over their car and switch on the siren. Continue to hold down the fire button for as long as you need the siren. Some criminals may ignore you the first few times you signal them to stop, depending on the severity of their crime. As the game progresses you can obtain a gun and shoot their cars; but don't hit any innocent bystanders. APB offenders must be rammed off the road and will not give themselves up without a fight. If you collide with a vehicle while the siren is off, crash too hard or injure an innocent party, you'll get a Demerit point. You'll also get a Demerit for every offender you do not catch on your quota. Collect too many Demerits and you'll be fired. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | BONUSES | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Visit the drive-in Donut shop for extra time, pick up money bags to enhance your pay packet and stop off at Gas Stations to refuel. You can also visit the Speed Shop and buy extra equipment for your car including radar, armour, better brakes and faster acceleration. However, paying for a souped-up car will be difficult if you've failed in your daily quotas and not collected enough money. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | CONTROLS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64: Use Joystick Amstrad CPC, Spectrum and IBM PC: Use Joystick or define keys. Left: Steer Left Down: Brake Right: Steer Right Fire pressed quickly: Shoot gun (if present) Up: Accelerate Fire held down: Switch on Siren +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LOADING INSTRUCTIONS | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Atari ST and Amiga: Insert Disk and switch on machine. IBM PC: Boot with MS-DOS, at A> prompt insert game disk and type APB Commodore 64 Disk: Type LOAD"*", 8,1 Amstrad CPC Disk: Type RUN"DISK Spectrum +3 Disk: Use Loader option.