TOONING IN TO WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT Roger Rabbit requires 512K min but works well with FAST ram installed. It also works best with 2 dives installed. Just boot off DISK1 and put DISK2 in DF1:, one drive systems will have to flip floppies quite often. If you have extra ram or a hard disk read the file on DISK2 called READ.ME. Press the P key to pause the game. Press it again to continue play. The Setting Welcome to Hollywood - 1947 - a busy, bustling, colorful place full of dazzle, drama and dreams; a place where you can go straight to the top - or at least across town on a network of streetcars called the "Red Cars." For a nickel you can ride to the end of the line, where two bits buys a ham on rye at the Terminal Bar and Grill. Cartoons are in their heyday, and out "Toon" hero, Roger Rabbit, is a true superstar! But his status as a Saturday matinee idol hasn't gone to his head. He's just a nice, ordinary, well-rounded guy. That's right! Like all his comic cronies, Roger is real, three-dimensional - just like you or me. He goes to work every day at Maroon Cartoon Studios and comes home every night to the animated suburb of Toontown. Then trouble hit Roger like a ton of bricks! He's framed for murdering Marvin, the Gag King. When Marvin's will also disappears, it's clear that someone is up to some not-so-funny business... Especially since Marvin, who owned Toontown, had promised to leave the place to the toons. The Goal Things look bad for Roger. He's on the lam, with that sinister Toon-hater, Judge Doom, after him. Doom want's to "administer justice" - in the form of a nasty chemical concoction called "The Dip" that dissolves Toons on contact. Roger has to move fast to stay out of Doom's clutches! (It's not that he minds an occasional bath, it's just that he'd rather not be all washed up so early in his career!) Help him stay ahead of Doom in a race to find Marvin's will - and prevent Toontown from being dipped off the face of the earth! Part 1: Benny the Cab Benny is a freewheeling, streetwise, and (usually) "reckless" Brooklyn cab with the gift of gab. Able to hop buildings and rise above it all on his accordion suspension, Benny's great in a jam (but watch out for bridges!). Your at the controls as Roger and Benny race Judge Doom through the streets of Hollywood. You can beat him if you watch out for the weasels in their Toon Patrol wagons, puddles of the deadly Dip, and collisions with the Red Cars. (Try landing on the top of a Red Car and see what happens!) Touch the RUBBER GLOVES to temporarily protect Benny from puddles of Dip; the WHEELS to get a burst of superspeed; and the DIAMONDS to remove a bucket of Dip from your tally. Keep your eyes open for other helpful items, too! Start your engines - and get going! * Maneuver Benny with the joystick. Pressing the stick forward or back will change lanes. Press it left to go slower, right to go faster. The fire button will raise Benny's suspension. Tap the fire button and push the stick up to jump on top of buildings. Tap the fire button and push the stick back to jump down off buildings. * Use Benny's accordion suspension system to rise above the cars and the Toon Patrol Wagon. * Be careful to avoid the puddles of Dip on the road. * Complete the round as quickly as possible. The faster you finish, the more of a lead you will have on Judge Doom in the race to the Gag Factory. Part 2: The Ink and Paint Club Whew! With your help, Roger and Benny have arrived at the ink and Paint Club, the only place in the world where humans can enjoy live performances by Toon stars like Rogers gorgeous wife, Jessica. Marvin's will is somewhere in the piles of niteclub receipts, napkins, and checks. Since is was written in disappearing ink, you must grab all the papers in the club to make sure that Roger gets his mitts on the will before the music stops. You control Roger on his mad race around the tables collecting papers as fast as the penguin waiters replace them. Avoid the gorilla and don't ever, ever, EVER let Roger take a drink. * Moving the joystick left, right, up, or down changes tables. The fire button grabs objects. * Roger runs in circles around each table. Use the joystick to make him switch tables. * Pick up all the papers before the music stops in order to complete the round successfully. Part 3: The Gag Factory At last! You've reached the place where all those famous cartoon gags are made. Unfortunately, the weasels are waiting to jump you! But don't give up - just grab the gags you find and use them to temporarily disable the weasel you meet at the factory. Since weasels are Toons, your only hope of permanently destroying them is by making them laugh themselves to death. Do anything funny - The more gags, the merrier - and the faster, the better for you! If you survive the weasels, it's not over! Judge Doom is waiting for you, ready for the moment of truth! Loose and it's all over for you, Roger, and Toontown. Defeat Doom and you save Toontown from total destruction and Hollywood from a future of strip malls, exhaust fumes, diamond lanes, and gridlock! * Moving the joystick left and right moves Roger in that direction. Moving it up will grab a gag, down will drop a gag. Pressing the fire button tells Roger to use a gag, or jump if he doesn't have a gag to use. * Pick up gags and use them to slow down the weasels. Some gags will backfire - you must learn how to use them by trial and error. Map of Los Angeles On the map, you can see Marvin's Gag Factory, the Ink and Paint Club, and Toontown. A glance will tell you how close you are to the Gag Factory, and how your doing in your race against Judge Doom. Buckets of Dip A bucket of Dip will be added to the tally when Benny collides with something, when Roger is bounced from the Ink and Paint Club, or when the weasels use a gag on Roger. Once five buckets are accumulated, the game is over.