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EARTH SHAKER

Michael Batty

COMPLETE GAME

A rather talented Spec-chum called Michael Batty sent us this
one. It's in the style of Boulderdash and Repton, and sees you as a
small robot-type thingie scuttling around an underground land of manic
mayhem. Your job is to collect all the on-screen diamonds, digging
your way through the soil and dodging the stones and stuff that get
dislodged and drop on your head (or not as the case may be). There are
trillions of other features (see box-off) and with 32 fun-packed
levels you won't be finishing it too quickly, that's as damn sure as
mustard!

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DIGGIN' DEEP!

Here are all the different things you find in Earth Shaker, with a
brief description of what they do...

Back Door Go out of here once all your crystals are
collected
Rocks Avoid these landing on your head
Walls Impenetrable
Earth Holds things up. Remove it and rockfalls will no
longer be held up
Crystal Collect all the crystals on the screen to open
the door
Jumping Jellybean Consumption will make you full of beans again
(groan!)
Forcefields Sap Energy. Disappear when you destroy their
monitor
Monitor Drop an object on it to stop forcefields
4D Teleport Will always displace you to the nearest chamber
at the top left of the screen
Elixir Potion of youths. Restores life
Gravity Stick Lets things get on top of you for a while
Bubble Supports things and extinguishes fires
Fire Destroys you and makes rocks go to pieces. (Not
nice)

NB It will be necessary to catch rocks in later levels. (Work it out
for yourselves)

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BLIMMIN' BATTY!

Michael Batty's a student at Edinburgh University. He programmed Earth
Shaker on and off over a couple of years, which may seem like a long
time to you but take a look at the pics and you'll soon realise why -
they're stunning! Mind you, we're not the only ones to spot Mr Batty's
talents - according to latest reports (well, his anyway) he's recently
been finishing off a game for no less a software house than
Zeppelin. Posh, eh?

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CONTROLS

Joystick or define your own keys

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(Taken from Your Sinclair, issue 63)

JSSpeccy

a ZX Spectrum emulator in Javascript

By Matt Westcott

Sound routines by Darren Coles

JSSpeccy homepage (including downloads and source code)

Based on Fuse by Philip Kendall et al. Icons from Nuvola by David Vignoni.