BODY BLOWS


 It`s been a long time in the making, but the most
 exciting beat`em-up to appear on your AMiga has
 arrived. Experience super fast, hard hitting fight aciton
 like you have never seen before. Choose one of four
 hero characters to combat the increasingly evil
 computer controlled opponents in Arcade mode. Take on
 a friend (or enemy!) in the highly competitive two player
 mode or go for broke in the Body Blows ultimate
 challenge, where up to eight players select their
 favourite character from the ten available and
 compete for the champion`s belt!

 COMPATIBLITY
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 Blody Blows will run fine on any Amiga system imaginable
 from the A500, A500Plus to the A600, A1200, A2000
 through to the A3000/4000 series. Should you experience
 any problems then please read the Troubleshooting
 section.

 Body Blows supports external drives and extra memory,
 you will need an Amiga with one-megabyte of RAM in
 order to play. If your machine has extra memory then this
 will be used to store data during play.

 You will need a joystick to play the game, or two if in two
 player mode. The game will run on a CDTV system that
 supports joystick control.

 There is no facility to install Body Blows on to
 Hard-Drive, the disks are non Amiga standard. Trying to
 carry out such a task may damage your original disks and
 therefore we advise against it.

 Your Body Blows disks carry on-disk copy protection and
 as long as you keep your disks write-protected they will
 function perfectly. If your disks become damaged,
 virus-infected or should suffer some equally horrible fate
 then please read the Disk Faults & Returns section.

 Note: Body Blows works fine on any normal Television set
 although we recommend that players sit at least 1.5-2
 metres away whilst playing.

 LOADING INSTRUCTIONS
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 Turn your Amiga OFF at the power-supply-unit, wait 10
 seconds and turn it back on again - this makes sure your
 system is clear of any other data.

 When the usual inster-disk prompt appears, inster Body
 Blows Disk One.

 After a short while, a loading screen should appear and
 loading will commence, if this is not the case, consult
 the Troubleshooting section.

 Insert the other Body Blows disks only when prompted by
 the game. When laoding is complete, the main options
 menu will appear and music will play.

 MAIN MENU
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 Use joystick to move around the menu and the
 button to change between the various options; when you
 are satisfied with the set-up you can start the game.

 GAME MODES
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 There are three distinct modes of play within the game,
 these are as follows;

 ONE PLAYER - In this mode, a single player can select their
 character from the four `hero` characters (DAN, NIK,
 LO-RAY & JUNIOR) and do battle against ever-tougher
 opponents in an attempt to finally beat the evil MAX and
 discover his terrible secret!

 For details on selecting and operating the characters of
 your choice, please refer to the seperate character
 information pages that follow the main instructions.

 TWO PLAYER - In this mode. two players can select their
 fighters and location and take part in a bone crunching
 duel. Using the set-up options you can tailor the game to
 your specific requirements. (See Options)

 TOURNAMENT - This mode allows 4 or 8 hunan players to
 take part in a huge Body Blows knock-out tournament. As
 for the Two-player game. the tournament can be tailored
 to suit your own personal preferences via the set-up
 options.

 OPTIONS
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 Within the set-up options for both one-player and
 two-player games there are the following facilities;

 TIME - The round timer can be OFF in which case the
 fight is won by the last player standing, or it can be
 set to 60 or 90 time units.

 ROUNDS - This can be set to 1 or 3. This way you can
 decide if the bout is decided quickly or if it is to be
 decided by the first player to win two rounds.

 MUSIC - In game music can be ON or OFF.

 CHAR v CHAR - This can be ON or OFF and gives players
 the ability to fight with the same character. If two players
 are using the same character in the same fight then this
 will be shown on screen with a marker for the player
 using the second joystick (gameport one).

 ARCADE SKILL - This can be ON or OFF. This effects the
 difficulty level of theh computer opponents in the one
 player `Arcade` game. To see the exciting climax to the
 one player game, you must play in Arcade mode.

 DEFAULTS; On loading, Blody Blows defaults to the
 following set-up;

 TIME ON (90), ROUNDS (3), MUSIC (ON), CHAR v CHAR (OFF).

 The one player game defaults to Arcade Skill.

 PLAYING THE GAME
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 After selecting your game, the program will load
 the various characters and data from your disks, please
 insert disks only when the game requests them.
 At the top of the main game screen there is a panel which
 indicates the players and their strength, the number of
 bouts won, time left (or energy depleted before total
 knock-out if TIME has been turned off) and the number of
 points for the players. The player controlling the character
 from game port one is on the left and the other is on the
 right.

 The fight will be introduced with digitised speech and
 fro then, the fight is underway! The fight continues
 until one player defeats the other over 1 or 3 rounds,
 depending upon the set-up options.

 For full movement lists on the character you have chosen,
 consult the pages after these instructions.

 TROUBLESHOOTING
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 Your Body Blows disks should perform perfectly fine as long as
 you treat them with care. Ensure that they remain write-protected
 (so that you can see through the holes in the corner of the disks)
 and that you reset your machine prior to playing, as instructed
 earlier.

 Failure to observe these points does increase the posibility of
 problems occurring, but does not necessarily mean that they will.


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