MAGIC SPOT ============= Who is Spot? He's that ultra-cool, wild and unpredictable 7up character whose crazy antics have been stirring up excitement on television screens throughout America. Prepare yourself to get down and boogie with those mischievious and totally fun-loving characters because now Spot has party-hopped to your very own computer screens. See Spot as he travels across the play board that you can custom design. GETTING STARTED 1. If you are alone and want to play the computer, you can use the QUICK START OPTION. 2. QUICK START: To skip the Option and Edit the menus and start the game, move the hand to Begin Game and press FIRE. The game begins and you are automatically in control of the red game pieces and your opponent is a level 1 computer player in charge of the green pieces. 3. To play on a full 49-Square play board, you don't need to go into the Edit Board Menu. Move the hand in front of either OPTIONS or START GAME and press FIRE. EDIT BOARD INSTRUCTIONS To change the board layout, move the hand to EDIT BOARD and press FIRE. COMPUTER EDIT A SCREEN: When you see the play board, move the hand to SHAKE and press FIRE or press S, to cycle through the 512 pre programmed play boards. You don't need to cycle through all the play boards if you don't want to--When you fing the play board you want just stop pressing FIRE or S. CUSTOM EDIT A SCREEN: Move the hand into the square(s) you wish to add or delete and press FIRE. Except in the circular area in the center of the play screen and the four corner squares, any square may be added or eliminated by moving the hand into the square you want to alter and press FIRE. To undo your changes and return to the original 49-square play board, move the hand to UNDO CHANGES and press FIRE. If you would like to custom-edit a board that is evenly balanced on all sides, move the hand to SYMMETRICAL and press FIRE. When you have the play board you want, move the hand to EXIT and press FIRE. To go into the options menu, youmust move the hand to OPTIONS and press FIRE. Once the Options menu is displayed, you can move the hand around the screen by moving the mouse, arrow keys or joystick in the appropriate directions. OPTION SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS 1. SPOTS OR PIECES: If you move the hand to the drawing of SPOT in the center of the Options menu and press FIRE, you can choose to play with Spot or with regular game pieces. When the backgroung in the drawing is dark, Spot is deactivatedand when the background is light, Spot plays. Don't worry about hurting Spots feelings--He won't mind a little vacation. Game play is exactly the same whether you use Spot or not. 2. PLAYER TIME LIMIT: This selects the lengthof time allowed for a player to complete a move. Press FIRE to cycle through the following choices: No timer 5 seconds 10 seconds 20 seconds 30 seconds 40 seconds Stop on the time limit you want. Move the hand to another option or return to the opening screens by moving the hand to EXIT and pressing FIRE. How about an example of how this option effects game play? No problem. If, for instance, you select a five second clock and fail to take you turn in that time, you forfeit your turn. 3. GAME TIME LIMIT: Unlike the player time limit, this option allows you to select total game time; that is, to select how much time the total game will take to complete. To select the game time limit, you must move the hand to the time clock square. Press FIRE to cycle through the following choices: NO CLOCK 1 MINUTE 2 MINUTES 3 MINUTES 5 MINUTES 7 MINUTES 9 MINUTES Stop to the time limit you want. Move the hand to another option or return to the opening screen by moving to EXIT and pressing FIRE. 4. EXTRAS The EXTRAS square allows you to switch secret spot squares off or on. If you wish to deactivate the square, move the hand to the center of the Options menu to the word EXTRAS and press Fire until the background in dark blue. The secret spot is activated when the backgroung is green. When you finish choosing all player selection options and time limit Options, Move the hand to the word EXIT in the middle of the screen and press FIRE. You can exit at any time to return to the opening screen. MOVING YOUR SPOT: 1. CLONE: If you move your piece into an empty adjacent square you will duplicate the piece by one 2. CAPTURE: If you move your piece into any area adjacent to an enemy piece, you will duplicate your piece 3. SKIP: You may skip over one square (enpty or occupied) by moving one of your pieces in any direction. But, if you skip over a square you are only moving your piece, not cloning it. This leaves an empty space in the square you started from, so be careful!!!!! However, you still capture all your opponents' pieces around the square you skip to. 4. SIDE SKIP: You can also "SIDE SKIP" by moving two squares. You will leave an empty space behind you. However, any of your opponents' pieces bordering on the square you have just entered will become clones of your game piece.