LOCK 'N' CHASE for Intellivision

 LOCK 'N' CHASE*

Cartridge Instructions

(For 1 Or 2 Players)

*Trademark of Data East USA, Inc. used under license

OBJECT OF THE GAME

Your thief's robbing a local bank. Police are in hot pursuit! Make tracks down

the vault corridors. Swipe gold coins and other treasures as you go! Keep one

step ahead of the law! Lock doors and throw cops off your trail! Collide with a

cop...he's "caught"! Keep on the run!

YOUR CONTROLS

TO SELECT GAME SPEED: 1, 2, 3, Disc

TO SELECT NUMBER OF PLAYERS: 1, 2, Enter

TO LOCK A DOOR: any side button

TO MOVE THE THIEF: Disc

SELECT SPEED

To begin the game, press RESET. You see the LOCK 'N' CHASE Title Screen. Now

choose your speed:

Press BLUE (1) for the slowest speed.

Press GREEN (2) for the slow speed.

Press RED (3) for a fast speed.

Press DISC for the fastest speed.

A dot in the upper right corner of the screen indicates which speed you choose.

The color of the dot matches the speed button. For example, if you press the

slowest speed, you see a blue dot. A white dot appears when you press the Disc.

CHOOSE 1 OR 2 PLAYERS

If you are playing alone, press 1 on either Hand Controller, then press ENTER. If

you are playing against another person, press 2 on either Controller, then press

ENTER.

HOW TO PLAY

After a moment's delay, the thief automatically enters the vault. The escape

doors lock shut! He can't go through either escape door until all the gold coins

are picked up. The four police officers begin to chase him down!

Press the DISC on your Hand Controller to move the thief around the corridors.

Press the Disc edge in the direction you want him to go.

The thief can dodge police by running through the open side doors. When he exits

through one side, he quickly enters on the other side. Be careful! Don't run

smack into a policeman on the other side!

NOTE: There are four side doors, but only TWO are open at a time! Sometimes the

top two are open, and sometimes the bottom two are open. This changes at random

so watch out.

Your thief picks up gold coins as he runs. Once the thief has gotten all the gold

coins, run him through he top or bottom escape door! You foiled the cops! Play

begins again with a whole new set of gold  coins to pick up! Points are mounting!

Sometimes "treasures" appear in the center of the screen. You have to land on

these fast...they only appear for a short time!

As the thief collides with police, he's "caught"! Action stops and your next

thief enters the vault.

The game ends when all your thieves are "caught". Score shows. Reset the game and

start again.

RULES OF THE CHASE

LOCK DOORS: Automatic doors are constantly locking and unlocking in the vault.

They are solid green when locked and disappear when unlocked. Police and the

thief can't get through these doors until they unlock and disappear.

Give the cops the slip by locking doors behind you! To do this, press any LOCK

DOOR (side) button on the Hand Controller, and the last door the thief came

through locks shut! These doors are red. You can only lock two doors at a time.

After a few seconds, the doors automatically unlock. Try not to run into any

door...you might stick to it!

Doors lock horizontally or vertically at the "light" lines in the corridors.

THE THIEVES: You start with 5 thieves. There is only one in the vault at a time.

Maneuver the thief and try to give cops the slip!

After one thief is caught, another enters the vault. The number of thieves you

have left shows on the screen. When your last thief is caught, the jig is up, and

the game ends!

When you rack up 20,000 points, you get another thief!

THE POLICE: Four police officers are constantly tailing the thief! Sometimes you

can run right through one. But you never know when this will happen!

THE MONEY: There are gold coins throughout the vault. Pick them up and your

scores rises. When the cash bag or one of the ten treasures appears on the

screen, run over it quickly! When the thief grabs the loot, the screen shows how

many points you got.

TIPS

* You can lock the thief behind doors to keep the cops away. Hope they move on

and you can escape when the door unlocks!

* The police can come through the open side doors too...so don't stay around

these areas!

* You can set the speed for the next game and at the same time keep the high

score from the last game. Do this at the end of game by pressing 1, 2 or 3 for

the slow speeds or press any LOCK DOOR (side) button for fastest speed. [NOTE: a

bug in the program keeps this from working properly. Pressing the LOCK DOOR

button will replay the game at the SAME speed instead of FASTEST. There is no way

to go from a slower speed to the fastest while keeping the high score.]

* When the police are tailing close in any of the four corners, try to trap him

in the corner by locking a door behind and in front of him. Get extra points for

this!

SCORING

The scores show on the screen at all times: left player's score on the left,

right player's on the right, and highest score since RESET in the center.

Each gold coin the thief picks up is worth 20 points.

CASH BAGS

Your thief can pick up four cash bags while he cleans out each vault:

Get 1st cash bag: 500 points.

Get 2nd cash bag: 1000 points.

Get 3rd cash bag: 2000 points.

Get 4th cash bag: 4000 points.

TREASURES

As the thief cleans out the vault the FIRST time he picks up hats. HAT = 200

points.

As the thief cleans out the vault the SECOND time he picks up crowns. CROWN = 300

points.

As the thief cleans out the vault the THIRD time he picks up briefcases.

BRIEFCASE = 500 points.

As the thief cleans out the vault the FOURTH time he picks up phones. PHONE = 100

points.

Discover 6 more treasures when you advance to higher levels.

When you get 100,000 points, the game automatically sets up at the highest speed!

Once you get 300,000 points, the scoring begins at zero again. At the end of each

game you will see a number under the center score. [NOTE: A bug in the program

keeps this number from showing up in a one-player game.] This tells you how many

times you have reached 300,000. You can reach 300,000 a total of 200 times...for

a possible score of 60 million! Good luck!

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©1982, 1998 Intellivision Productions, Inc.