peter@unm-la.UUCP (bill peter) (08/07/88)
My 5-year old son recently got the new 8-bit cartridge Blue Max. It's a good game for his Atari 800 XL, but he has had trouble landing it according to the instructions. I also have trouble. After pressing the joystick button, the plane sometimes can land and sometimes can't. What's wrong? Thanks in advance. -- Bill Peter wkp@lanl.gov.arpa Los Alamos National Laboratory ihnp4!lanl!wkp
cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher Chiesa) (08/07/88)
In article <789@unm-la.UUCP>, peter@unm-la.UUCP (bill peter) writes:
< My 5-year old son recently got the new 8-bit cartridge Blue Max.
< It's a good game for his Atari 800 XL, but he has had trouble
< landing it according to the instructions. I also have trouble.
< After pressing the joystick button, the plane sometimes can
< land and sometimes can't. What's wrong? Thanks in advance.
< --
< Bill Peter wkp@lanl.gov.arpa
< Los Alamos National Laboratory ihnp4!lanl!wkp
I believe, Bill, that you must slow all the way down (to 100 mph, is it?)
before the plane will land safely. I.e., you press the joystick button,
the "speed" readout starts dropping, and you can land safely only after
it STOPS dropping and "bottoms out," as it were. Try that.
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cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP python@pnet01.cts.com (Greg Scribner) (08/07/88)
If my memory serves me right, the plane has to be at a certain altitude when
approaching an air strip and then you have to press the fire button to lower
your landing gear. Also, I believe it prints out somewhere on the screen that
your landing gear is down when the latter procedure is correctly done. Hope
this helps.
later,
Greg Scribner
(Of course this whole message could be a the product of a deranged person, but
hopefully it's not.)