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SLIPPERY SID

PUBLISHER
SilverSoft

AUTHOR
Steven Godwin

YEAR
1982

CATEGORY
Arcade

DESCRIPTION
It's a snake game - eat things, grow longer, don't crash into
anything!

CONTROLS
A - Up, Z - Down, N - Left, M - Right
No Joystick Support

INSTRUCTIONS
Guide Sid the snake around the garden scoffing frogs. Frogs make
Sid grow longer, which makes things more dangerous as you mustn't
crash into anything - this includes your own body and the walls
of the garden!  Every time you eat a frog, a new toad enters the
garden. Toads are poisonous to Sid, so you must avoid these too.
However, every now and then a magic mushroom will grow which,
when eaten, will allow you to eat one toad without coming to any
harm! Once the garden is cleared of frogs, it's on to the next
area. Sid is provided with three lives with which to score as
much as he can.

INLAY CARD TEXT

CHEATS

SEQUELS/PREQUELS
None.

SCORES RECEIVED
This was released WAY before any of the mags started reviewing
games on a regular basis.

URL
FTP it from many places (search for SLIPPERY.ZIP), or grab it
from
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl:/pub/OS/sinclair/snapshots/s/slippery.zip

GENERAL FACTS
One of the best 'snake' style games for the Speccy. Possibly
written in compiled BASIC, although I have no proof of this.

Slippery Sid is another of those rare beasts - a 16k game! :)

There are Four levels, as shown below :

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     |                |  |     |               |
     |                |  |     |               |
     |                |  |     |               |
     |                |  |                |
     |                |  |                |
     |                |  |                     |
     |                |  |     |               |
     |                |  |     |               |
     |                |  |     |               |
     ======================== ========================
          Level 1                  Level 2

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     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     |                     |  |                |
     |                |  | TTTT           TTTT |
     |                |  |                     |
     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     |     |         |     |  |     |         |     |
     ======================== ========================
          Level 3                  Level 4


The 'T's on the last level are toads. Usually there are no toads
when you start the game - once you get this far there are no such
luxuries!  After level four the game continues with the same
screen arrangement as level four, but Sid starts each level
slightly longer than he was at the beginning of the previous one.
It's not very hard to complete up to about level 8, but after
that it starts to get tough!

NOTES
Playable, fun, small. What else can I say?